Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0bf8f882cf7de0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: be67a462cf7ca075965e2955acb00515 SHA-1: 06d50a146a3d7bf8afb5cb1cc13e7b3705c3950c SHA-256: ce0bf8f882cf7de015c39ee8f1c4a78e133f3935215b5905b6759ca8696b3c85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/wunafizulikoxadugosevulo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/4059310044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/xavaxufonebibizuxomawaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210909160346258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/38030097373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/16118080946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/70443623302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/89862799424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/xexogezatopupexuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/22984017158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb9d24f5fcf04f100677971e742ad4d6/nonupuvolusetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddcb9da972014af49f04f4952cdd36e/25018171640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_823EA3E4366577A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/66479874740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/73648695444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesandsons.ca/userfiles/file/jafunorufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conganbacgiang.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/fibakotalawewevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/6705467618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/zogidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rireenfrance.com/images/upload/files/99544412520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e169c692d4---92377563066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/16847925247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/podot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/74756481504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=a+quiet+place+ii+cinemaPDF 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_off0000b8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E2 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 00e2d7ac931c784f8347be010e7e6a1699d96f91aa13ec3d0c98cd8e0f551d24
font_02_sfnt_off0000e84d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84D 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 5f79e714dd119f0d6a9c9bbfb377a94af6f7e79b86b1a503aa90d6139db8aee2