Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce27e9a5b8a9dca1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e0aaeb0070843c000202995b2e96731b SHA-1: 6fc4e3673f0b7e2ee447e877bee7e41c722e0707 SHA-256: ce27e9a5b8a9dca13994be4f6f1b688e40639f379a33895e2d2c621261cc1949
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple external URLs are present, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=open+office+360+login
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/24690609958.pdf
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/10719030580.pdf
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/rivavumowoturivajexuxo.pdf
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/goketi.pdf
    • http://dkind.net/userData/board/file/45624263894.pdf
    • http://e5tbr.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/80078877762.pdf
    • https://theshamrockpublecco.it/file/sekabakoluduxunijonapim.pdf
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/luwovodotik.pdf
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/lizedamido.pdf
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/nasojulisiwiselaminivuzi.pdf
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/39623653351.pdf
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/puzurepimofew.pdf
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/32914727843.pdf
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupoxutotoxepifaremuz.pdf
    • http://dailymaydemtien.com/userfiles/files/4008723081.pdf
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88872362898.pdf
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/32971935446.pdf
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b98c9f16b4f1c7ce3fbebc5a0879370/96168099631.pdf
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/59570689244.pdf
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/jixeregidada.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886e2dd4b4a4c1d90b55768bf683c345/sotisiwisewebufa.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8e454c08185659bdfb51ca1b819a0c/88447276814.pdf
    • http://fpempresa.cen.es/userfiles/files/dobagajiworowivanagemi.pdf
    • https://checkmavandon.com/asset/site/files/99804666806.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d845.bin
ac24712dda07fb36ca12cb8b01cd94fae14c906a55e53ddfd66e1b01390cd9a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD845 20420 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d98.bin
8f69111608a48ee2681debb55be0bf5fda44d8974e5e4a2b5fb82956ead86e66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D98 10612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000125ee.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EE 16792 bytes