Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce1fecdbb9ffc47b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-10-16 06:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 5dcb09f74e50d84bcbd4dadc24472654 SHA-1: e863bd437911388abb134d2aeacc31536b5d6187 SHA-256: ce1fecdbb9ffc47b79344c25198b7c838cc1474b9118966692707f3036365d3a
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as a malicious phishing trojan by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, designed to lure users into clicking on malicious links. The heuristic findings indicate a deliberate attempt to obscure the malicious nature by using link farms and potentially compromised CMS uploads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/xutobijosuliletit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/76766212217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnfgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/pezomowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/56306840142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/vikoripedafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/68593449440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/zowisuguxuzomitujuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/rizumolezasuxedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unstitchedfootwear.net/files/file/20249855341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8800516516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcfabe6720cd8b3f90058a6f3c707895/folapuzerifame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbyschuurtje-webwinkel.be/images/userfiles/file/goxisopubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepasidemedical.ie/images/uploads/file/30340607591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/18728151131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnestrovsk.es-pmr.com/constructor/dnestrovsk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jurubazuwuzelevuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/80541831437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/11514881237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ae5f29c4efcd79de4e9579b5ecba8c/forukurorafukiselogili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/nolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aeekk.xn--p1ai/files/file/gazibokidadowedawozopezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medeeatour.ro/mm/file/39645120845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59289123242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/sezagokusexoziwaretevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f7f1807dd7eed7d14e669a254425f8/46552401861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/58838613851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161606a346ccec---xabikija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/18150267240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/HTGXzuRVGb4/uplcv?utm_term=palaeolithic+age+toolsPDF 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_off0000d81d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD81D 10304 bytes
SHA-256: cb8e573359a7f45aca40e86ef0fc1c1e6483d8ed6c773cebbc83ff38724e7a38
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7F 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 355639caa2e2667cd670321b28ee77c830f8d88ae5dfe718ea222570b1742a6a
font_02_sfnt_off00011c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1