Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ce8641212fd5fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:25:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 741fe51397838a6d33a172fda82111c3 SHA-1: e8116d06419803db0c3dfb24f3ec33505f129296 SHA-256: 2ce8641212fd5fc13672c24ae7cbcbfdd00cfbfc814963cfd12d38908fb553e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'utm_term_redirector' heuristic further supports the idea of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=java+data+structures+and+algorithms+interview+questions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vuroresuzitojiveluwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bdf30104c93345941bba234e5eb39e3/16774841196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/tejigesitowezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/16568302211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5955866660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/48273536399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/2516115611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfee9d64be---gesifemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/jepojedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/wawapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flooroverstock.com/admin/userfiles/file/risarosigaguzoxajulira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93207385558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/98903758625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081222d68ffe---boxatiboliriweliwevovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8b641b0a492e73848490d1ec605dc7/jupileburovomazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krassimirtaskov.com/userfiles/files/16550044797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stananddiane.com/clients/6/67/672a2699e369d648dd23e03de9deda78/File/89173144276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffc948794d5---71189480073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ce07c333d6072b88927ef1463ff8f73/nabiwutirepewalifutobudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/mevosowugoxupizosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e283j11n50aaijv14rvfka35rn/52595787285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/1482653416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oetar7shi1s87gf9q2ipod1tj5/kudidoromusepuf.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_off0000be05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE05 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 191c7989592d474e906b661d6a177621a9aa6f03f421e8f52e72d28b47fcd026
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 11456 bytes
SHA-256: cfd5596e8ad3bdad0687d40fad24e71b77512f8a6b63a5eb1a8d27ddb628cf8a
font_02_sfnt_off00010644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10644 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1