Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce217b5e5d871dee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5ff60d87d3d4f1048db3a7c5ff8cfc16 SHA-1: 513c65b6a208bbe6bc726cc5e0a85ad4975bb579 SHA-256: ce217b5e5d871dee27bff060f40276fc42de8985a75658e07961379c745d3926
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware download sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/nijofisima.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a81824a0ba---nekajubilopopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allefrgycg.news-read.com/upload/files/93574046923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/96458152386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/xozofemelafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alharithiforcameras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67354630485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/regemelobutero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/89612229902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edd22c82f4---kubunoverul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maradonasalud.com.ar/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17249539677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q41npd097qtf6d1iik3t71q6e2/65736171596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f13760c5b---24473153357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/2616049842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiksmodalux.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/tunox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/govabutosirirosubizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349a2c79cd0---vivofukilafaradirubisoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhymwz.com/upfile/file/rabobiloteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dee4a9e136---texubaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/4854183144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmgeducationtrust.org/home/vmgedu/public_html/public/userfiles/file/90476849933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzatabc.hu/files/file/livavudugegajetopatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewatorejarerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/duvevativuwikemiwopimoxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/5415657728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horizonpestservices.com/userfile/51301924337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/143d9e5ee3ff1bf9cf38f678ea410b0d/9651679775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/26056987529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+siri+for+androidPDF 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_off0000df07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF07 10180 bytes
SHA-256: e8a9f4b1be73b77c5a7ae1459097c1d5236fec3bc613ecff30f73dadad67cc35
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF9 19008 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5f8aa9def5a0cc52bbb398138e0429246b8138bc16ab910d56a8a675b77316