Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce152f0f952b2f37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:07:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eb6f16c397acbfc204cd720e01564738 SHA-1: 20cfeffc4f99c820fa3290b6fd9d8e1f68d7096c SHA-256: ce152f0f952b2f37e99a7ea82c37223a0124d821626e2847a030658e297c3452
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and AV detections.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=teach+your+dog+to+high+five PDF link annotation
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/nodujaxopimisozofolevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3f6c3a13b---sanukavobatodumixeweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.org/contents//files/72840946626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modigogulobikelesofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenekedjieva.com/uploads/file/57217944420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/30039623525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/29632075660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/62381684334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119529eca742---dofamokijifeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bac248f033---bipubupunaruxelopazelijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210819_B09B874BC680C96D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6213efc728b3f1146364b599ce809855/15760473111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d0de23c193---xetomebakobenanobekadoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dutikorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/23030345372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202107/file/210723072014847923hbuac8yd1ygd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/tikawufakogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f19821e50ed491ac3931b8254e7dc1/jilegajuzonidexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/81532758835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://craftland.de/res/wysiwyg/file/dedime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cf70f2715---wafilimuvegefakagorefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611309a30c4a0---buvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leicesterbiketec.com/userfiles/file/40269023597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huarui-bio.com/upload/files/zadakodis.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_off0000e677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE677 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 67aea4ea1fcfe8805c2cc98b91587bcb37e3c9b7bd92fd3e36f4f15c4201fc6d
font_01_sfnt_off00011564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11564 10680 bytes
SHA-256: fd4513ce554a30ef5adec7a1dc6d8b49c79743bef817b9bf55b4d0bee41712aa
font_02_sfnt_off00012de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1