Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ce0e3dc6e6a0b78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2ebdb06cec65de58e62d140f1f63b072 SHA-1: 7cdf9cba3a342f1ddd782183d0c0474ab48fec19 SHA-256: 1ce0e3dc6e6a0b78aac2288392273e14b722e73359bdf40071bc73e4e9da9f9f
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of invoice and download button lures further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://mayjack.com/upload/files/22472082211.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/bovizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2568271186---92867818497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c73cc7b8c8a20434a1ea46ef6df996/kegoruninepataloriva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/3968777536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/gisalegirufus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/zenap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf7d47a2b9---fidamonejenavajemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/12884550142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd49ab6bf4f---tiwisiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/15390185349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1819a6bc3---ramabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xetnghiemadndanang.com/upload/userfiles/files/6692844626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608430d5a4cc8---soweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee11e3841f48b29fdda798d52018307/72506208109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/kidodekoriwijawupivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770d6fc7b197160de1ed402ba24568f6/70246238180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/33650294654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c2d622b1b52126f9ca2f8a607aee91/71439480472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47597763002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/nedoraxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web-news.eu/www/pkpar/userfiles/file/puditaridelabegizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1603c76e2f---59346824889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+pensioners+life+certificatePDF link annotation
    • 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_off00012107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12107 18244 bytes
SHA-256: d04fd500acdae27cc1fe28cd62a908acdd24ac8e8df37075102aed30ea3ecbb7
font_01_sfnt_off00015132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16949 10732 bytes
SHA-256: a3bf23674364645e39a4dcc0f721a0b9040cbc5019ac5d2c2118ed9a74208e95