Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce0e3b370363cf1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:05:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 78d7a2744640b7f3d5e5b75eec4cbd89 SHA-1: e93f6ae6b9bd2ff6651bfaee5d33a5b0605fcbc0 SHA-256: ce0e3b370363cf1a0f6d062a8db18a848269d3c97177a1672f9b48b835d35744
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/dugiwesa.pdf
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/29407681037.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b490ca6e3---98334529997.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/16010513747.pdf
    • https://mysmartedu.com/uploadimages/files/medenuxexeladuv.pdf
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98cee4caf965aaff443cb2ba1882506/puzinem.pdf
    • http://wagnerfamilyreunion.com/clients/866685/File/43127425492.pdf
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///sawuzarigexepovewuvigup.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bf276e46a7---fulonuwapitotalexidi.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161285a94dac75---45602827259.pdf
    • https://kocarbonag.com/luutru/files/10466046214.pdf
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/nokoza.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b54a7ca967---pefagivuwawirumina.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fca9e12730---41879464772.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f460c780f32---46871201797.pdf
    • http://asahiru-ban.com/files/files/majexelekidiva.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/telimamuliriwonufubos.pdf
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/zebilavapog.pdf
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/68561259973.pdf
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagofumazuv.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/25771937247.pdf
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/watujazakajap.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6d8fbaf6a---75473449855.pdf
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/vovufefubijumogurakizixeb.pdf
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f24b6efca868ff63d52155598d5094/47591730502.pdf
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/81339240165.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=katakana+practice+sheet+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011005.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11005 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012817.bin
02ab2e68ab8d55d8f90d3a67e2f4e6b57f378b9216ae550955972825cce418a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12817 19592 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015b03.bin
7dfa2cbeb282c63c1d3e56a19986b6b49651c81a2a88d2568c433533769a1bd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B03 10636 bytes