Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0a2cdecbc9799a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 23:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: af8cae09ae4f3d3803cc1a59a54af589 SHA-1: 9eec4243b133bbebc34338fd1d336a6c5f2ecfae SHA-256: ce0a2cdecbc9799a3fb680c4fa5afb72a32ac4bf3afe03c96881d3c65dec0a33
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. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/770caccd71e5d66f06d52593991a1e25/lagipageturekibawev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bahispesinde.com/gnc/veri/_files/tarewewudebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2303f0f2d---valawuzadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tupanugitutusexufisisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210901145127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcondosales.rodeodrivecondosale.com/userfiles/files/97228596311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/99617485800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/12870278014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/jeluwafapesowigedawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/mukadoxafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13f209c1d960a23d42742b2114086666/78020185774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reazfarah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28305871743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marktoby.com/akram/know_news/admin/userfiles/file/vorisuligelarutevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4da16d5ba0696c4aa1456c3fee844017/11378928088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k31szmq42-nu28.com/contents/files/bitowekitoselezarufusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/56759236677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/94236882057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/raledapevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/nopowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/gumaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shatalarab-llc.net/userfiles/files/85119988986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91003935714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=las+estrategias+y+los+instrumentos+de+evaluaci%C3%B3n+desde+el+enfoque+formativo+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_off0000e44e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE44E 20060 bytes
SHA-256: a9cd7151623c93319f0224efe64701a0b9777ccfef174dd0cd4db1c238576749
font_01_sfnt_off000116a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EC0 11484 bytes
SHA-256: 6e63fdd5b5982d1b08aa60c9cb296dab9deda89599fd3836609fad73e0371e2e