Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce23a1de055afdda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 00:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 50aafc3596e88eb67704256f1e4b4d0d SHA-1: 8e2a4ec82f7ba1e2844a44ffb917f4ff58c2010d SHA-256: ce23a1de055afddacb4227046d0b369d5d5a4fd2df282b4d0b757a74284828e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with a high ML confidence score and ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the document structure and embedded URLs point towards malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=primo+bottom+load+water+dispenser+cleaning+instructions PDF link annotation
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/72352432642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/illlmtq0pop0b25fji2lshift3/tijajefolavumusutumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/49910958926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47002552198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e8c689689572a9e57cdd93dd6f830ab/14028378892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70ef82075d21d44079c4212747d5692/77730828383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lochoanggia.com/upload/files/mopedowixikowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/61377671515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d27b53c3ef---19593300345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b80360d7d31d7f852b92a5c25b15ea1/wiliximirawikitivinebisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92712190358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8266815eec0ec374c0c22aba9af2c63/25038795499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b37d45b8b---14860814976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f24e1902b7---10413303252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/lufogiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/sarufigofopelili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e16b21ee7bd45ce711b6206576ce0cd8/navakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/99582901929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdravi-kromeriz.cz/files/file/gebuxotiwupitunuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072546b5d9a5---23927825627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/dipidobura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/segufipopupubivagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/85465453006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc9f26691a---wuvezaza.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_off0000f30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30A 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 833820d3f482c0b47428d4ab03579873a00f5c7be56d624ea959bbf0f652cd4c
font_01_sfnt_off0001200a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13821 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3fb92d707343e1060a9126aee12949de501064d64b9ab8704a80973edbe8f1