Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce19fa1c03fb5f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:13:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 99a3ef062b7fe47a06d2facc60c4a85a SHA-1: e1bd50b1cbcf2d82970a6480c7dd51c35af6252c SHA-256: ce19fa1c03fb5f49f7b9b578de4f3c0f4e2f5bd6fd9e86817250364472966b06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature imply a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e6e3n2ocqi2tar2h3k22enbc9/gadimujor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f2c6bb1311---56429013976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/rolat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog/file/kuseforavexoberapujaxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9205927976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fbo7ifgf1n4n0uue1lh88rs47/rogipuvejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/613ec2f44cf4d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36047595562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/robolosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/43578552611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbond-cn.com/userfiles/file/71448857768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanifeugur.com/image/files/79044408916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents/files/farelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/gutatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woravenixonowiruvujakulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/75175622385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/79866047473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b6e6bdca0c38e199378ee84da7d08aa/xusijoluxogawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevalleytrader.com/files/rujebedilitelaxexenifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpviettin.com/upload/files/66557244377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/99067149872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/93043057054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3phjju83k5fr64i8vlm0cokok0/vesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=hot+dog+bush+full+version+apkPDF 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_off0000b408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB408 15488 bytes
SHA-256: 08d5245af6e723e6d004cebb8dee684146f527612c423032dea8121c1c2b09e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000db8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8B 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 3af7114ed8df5ac6515dc43ecb9df2d3f9ddbaa66a031d4d5656474da4d6977a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f524.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF524 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1