Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ceced6c6088f860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:35:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 30e528dc9eec0e6283d7537fa7783fb6 SHA-1: 7069bca6d61400765d9f0d64a2ff58238937755e SHA-256: 0ceced6c6088f860758f27bcd7fc35a8e7d9841430f036269108b77374c747f9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. The heuristics indicate a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports a malicious intent, likely involving phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+interjection PDF link annotation
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d353b1ddb5---44097074350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a06354f98734ad8bfee5108d5f41079/runikugaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c43hj4e1mgtauoosme522p59l/82589682846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f51310dd0---11909827078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franciscovalles.comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/lolaxulawifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/jalesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/80745936065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf6b2f027f603347a1fa1ad89464a09/goguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/53571906218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/56303664059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/46205791608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377e6d408bd783cbb2a7558286a6724e/pazuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81bf96e20d7f7f270fa12dacf29292a2/bozazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/78179274883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e82lig4jcvva988067te0eai2/mafujokisenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/vapewuxipuwusaweroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/mumeguzijimetojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peach2560.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26796010065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/komeguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/savidetipupamafomese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f906c2e9dd---bovipadifenedajepezafafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/20061477809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d763.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD763 10336 bytes
SHA-256: be3ab49281623b2ba74c2cd611af1e20daca123c4f55d0e462cab841d5abce9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA4 17948 bytes
SHA-256: a8ca50c6bafa24f802cd4d66ea2be7671d3b26dab190748585d81aeef0aea85f
font_02_sfnt_off00011c60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1