Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce7022121e33860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 15:41:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be3d70579cebc351db23c5129eb118f6 SHA-1: 05d353269e57817d08e65936b90484380a7ef19a SHA-256: 2ce7022121e338602b0d1d8a55f77725fe1b0424dce7bcd878e97261df73ef0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=which+elements+are+classified+as+transition+metals PDF link annotation
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/41595312332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815e36b5daa596e836c4c380b3807dd7/vurexowapemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wutubilubifavisuzexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770365a6225914e03ce9a498fcafb976/27434882079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/11783421441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/37896899236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bfd40c7cc---muwida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/biwesukogixodusijipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da2jsh1qb42raokpsrtaadn73/sijose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/13353986471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/191ee5419d768c0e499fec5654ebab44/94832902828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/xumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050e65671c08534da33a98d2acb1d200/61110020003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0h45ms1i69c6alodg6r8vm9d/5221429233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210514124705_yodgt5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4c0354f2ffb11a9fb46d7ffdc69b2b/tadojoduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b2f2750cb---30269108590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94d87cdc7---99051520113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/vudobuwoboxeritiguderane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21658040680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/83911139139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/zalupijowosolakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d1ae99305---90529547782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844cf7e71f2---50030365495.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_off000119b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B9 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 91fa2507051e630ec468655bcd97253951508568653c1c87620d1ba0d61eba12
font_01_sfnt_off00014645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14645 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 475a3c50d281b5bce9894de08ab490eec39ed413a1416c4fb6247483e915fe26
font_02_sfnt_off00015ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1