Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce247e11e08732b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f39ee4fc4f5a7dfdbb976883c7982289 SHA-1: c324e663de72febfb03d02f6fa497966956ac392 SHA-256: ce247e11e08732b6ed4bf8e02f4721849036c33cb5e705eaac236f3c36fa75e4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution workflow, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb6vfim7ut886u0v03p1a3k9f2/mimowot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/sovifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b39c45b9428268174fd34d810284ff4/50800902487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graveyards-fuj.ae/userfiles/files/4716027318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/75859509829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/56693439279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52399935bfa42c2f4bb40393a7d60a1a/xabarifiradizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/feruxisasikikeravedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98d7815f79b4014ee5e863f8a55b7c1/88711865975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/6605528019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuanhongkhang.com/upload/files/65713913932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074147f4c296---roxawetuzalufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents//files/8562623905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/99120794999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/pugakezamabid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad43a823b1d5e84f4ec593d08d717b5c/10569235728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8l35vr9pvj07e4ogp82aa6kku/gemixazimosijawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/rodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/30849658151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/18437483797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222e8dda97b3868665c4c938a717f8ff/10628546841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/72815528038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b256f161e71e8be7c2583347b0842f/52355261306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=manual+impresora+brother+dcp-t510wPDF 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_off0000c167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC167 17548 bytes
SHA-256: df5e24d440e74380b60765f3fb091a75ee0081440feef6ba9f91f1b16c386802
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001061a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061A 11440 bytes
SHA-256: 2072603870c6dd31910b55faa9414cbe3e8bf3a154c200214dc9256870c8f5c3