Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cee61abd397de35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 07:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5daf9a5abe35fa9aa1b3f4422a730a8e SHA-1: c43e2292cffae0cfbb00ba960dfb2a0956c72182 SHA-256: 1cee61abd397de3555f7dc88924dec9f36dd6f147ddf9c28618cd1fd5c8d8ff3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a malicious link-farming pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1fc0e94bda---87607507855.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/bominazusasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b209a431a6---85513808793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4278a93a3---84789170843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/rabivalisojiligonude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b66503082---82751171261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/nunijigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f03dc7ad3bc---vogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/94658856137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiendadelbordado.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovawodapufofulujotawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///62337302702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/vovakiteneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6852titfkb0peqaourl8uovhn7/welovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/kekomudafibaguriletawodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/zuxawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/83566283882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/mapanagomividijilililugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/73851526419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rewizixukugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/8483828415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794b52486de---gorilatamotudexadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/disasinidero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/vomonadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a4860f1b3---majobamixegozuwusudepakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+de+suma+y+resta+para+quinto+grado+pdfPDF 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_off0000e38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38D 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 1e4699134ec35b54219da1b19e25c3210f259dd6c5d5337902b4ca08ade34cfd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11597 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 065540cf8d8b6d7040858c76172e467045dcd6764a5073350b796907ac03d09f