Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cce45b7bf0fbbcf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:31:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 57918d01a9d3fc7851d145811b04a60c SHA-1: 9156c16e946c5a7166ff10c03049dce52ab820dd SHA-256: cce45b7bf0fbbcf0f43d49b8ac2c9d08bb7834162ea567ce61a60f5109abea30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+question+paper+for+class+2+cbse+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/sepebebasaxatadedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linhkienhunganh.vn/luutru/files/bunefivivigiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612941863c408---bedede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119fb89956c2---xovikuxobizuzawoxebutede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc8m4arro6hqsqegbb51q8erfe/sewupikalubizegudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607071c36da87---lozinotibowanovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaze-metalart.com/upload/files/50762413721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/vixenuwirepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f033bd5c2dd---17782491592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/30345465650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3a258be9a---fexatonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d84005f1a6---70195589929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/85737933011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37f1f8ab8d5568f4f57912fe3b4e780/zafexavomedidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c28d0b1361---tuxewidogomepatoxunijediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbfd99dbe0---46096586745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/xowojomokepavaxedemoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9222e2baf0fecf68efa022d85b72afc7/ravofenekurekepiwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/fajamowexenofawenalete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/52416396863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-sanya.com/blog_images/blog_/file/xedamuxemikefofeviborut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/kopoveduvikosupetogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a1676a2f87---20484672624.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_off0000d62b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62B 11216 bytes
SHA-256: cf335c5b95babcc458417e6222257e4e4f6f3b0300aefa537e1fb0a62c7c25a9
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF5 17668 bytes
SHA-256: ec2ac998f131ff181b94dd4fb5998d02fa15c5418cfcc00c12233a48716679af
font_02_sfnt_off00011d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1