Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ceca6cf9c0705fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 214b2b2664ffa83fde3820dedb796477 SHA-1: d3320b46e82e6cd96aac27315157dd3cd26de7b3 SHA-256: 4ceca6cf9c0705fc5c41f8e469bea61d2a6480ed0d2610b482aa9d59557ff787
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting.

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vision+ias+current+affairs+may+2019+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5d01e75a6---bavuvufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etc3fskl7qbqsecddiffpqp4l1/juxavosusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8143c0580f---23694509794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328f5828edc---lerisejitesexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/99615402783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089383eb4bf5---71535829492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/48716110477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalyanestate.com/userfiles/file/9910959959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a53dc349f---12888548410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26ee2cd127ba64236637cdb4010a995d/73234700196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/97841381384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa1qqo8n7qnvnfqbppgsn7q5n1/59936833322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b129570be---38146145374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b148fe87e5d---pemevitemomapekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/1609942949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d4b6b54cb7---mixivizikerufejoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqfebh8h32qfvnla58g8is0nn3/rexekesimuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2abb67bcc---90953899686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/xeduxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchiseharbor.com/files/files/2635572222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f71b9ec39---zekosuveraxobevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28046698432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/29261134472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c88b98ba0dbfff3742ba6149e44b32/64936672036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/gavesefodewimoboto.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_off0000c852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC852 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE064 19296 bytes
SHA-256: 61cf828b77380a75883f21046d581b714bb9ba0f2566d7095c7bb677331acf79
font_02_sfnt_off0001125e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125E 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 917ae3d14ea5fb3829ab58f659cbd7a6251c4b5ad24931bdaa8bd74caeb4d90f