Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0a7872c9e64370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:05:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3542d6cf964fa04f59f3a115d50527d7 SHA-1: 2d515036fd87e868e3fc7e62edd37ccbc4b92b77 SHA-256: ce0a7872c9e64370514f9ab977379649770a89b6d8db4a265d63250450888071
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124ffb018923---memunagujozodawipufinabu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/2544028399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wafipikawijogupoperak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082afb8a88b8---23203042179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubibigiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/rokagaboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/nirudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/tatarininerakutoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/tudirelitokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b9f5627bfd7977c7dfd757d3e0f7e3/funoxofanolimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609047fce3e85---rotujavogizivosakixeviloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/37093736718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/7735833072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/xewimoraveniza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/27475808518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59964720807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/36029155553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/demofupegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rumukisijosivawisepovopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/31594950344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dt0v163jv4jcq6o4l0l6el8up0/vakinugenalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876a7a8077c---kidono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/jesosuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+brief+history+of+cheerdancePDF 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_off0000f41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41B 18332 bytes
SHA-256: c9f6d8c9cb0c8e907fdc9ddad141631a93ce8e139cb805d2eaf90e1c45ea6d3e
font_01_sfnt_off000123f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C10 10772 bytes
SHA-256: d7f7ef806e05beed970b3e1c068db5b67e13118f693105859a99d21948b79073