Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2caeb00439cd9444…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b4245e2f77c1ae918c960b28e637fdda SHA-1: 51edfd6c1e3b6382911a8c6482c525053cd6b22f SHA-256: 2caeb00439cd94442203bc81926c84ea0223257ee9edfc1c2de9e8e1d9ef52d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' indicates the document's content is designed to mimic an invoice or payment request, further supporting a phishing or scamming motive. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xazosadit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210620115652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/namiwemamovaxagera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086711741190---40904818139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/robariribofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/samatovazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/50322248472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/wenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/dozonevorugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/78338830566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5a395a0a18---gutijeworudini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/juxovotunitiwadadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/lanozona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d523ce566d---39192377637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/16040446419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seriruwenosonigivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plafondchauffant.fr//img/user/file/76967756490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusitijubodowujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e790cc476b3715c3cdbecca96b4637ce/88810283891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/fifatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/zibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/98375539269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/xexibobidawidezupexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1891b9cdf1e763272b1055d428e72632/lupesexebutetovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=esl+shopping+vocabulary+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_off0000d85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85A 17612 bytes
SHA-256: ee681a44baf1241f01ff9aaec900419dbb4c1ab6dddac445114f809d2ace3ba7
font_01_sfnt_off0001062c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062C 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 6c9462488907d01e395da3cf74446635f912c8218b044c86f37964499e7ffde6
font_02_sfnt_off00011f77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1