Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2a5ccdeb202ddb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:20:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3b0941be0e079a72d4bf44346aa4e83b SHA-1: b75393eeda87b73314334108785e637dc7850efc SHA-256: ce2a5ccdeb202ddbcf78b69a698e714f68f024d175948ef9cd9a0e96b67c03bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains exploit code. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories further supports this. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/zababejubedu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9fe9090e3217330d97bde7ec58b06b/bonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopoxigarewelenemilegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardenofsound.com/userfiles/files/3835469873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/51535107712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76c47f8af22ac281854d14cc2cbc1d1f/fogirazavigezisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/1002122141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinaweb.com/upload/file/xuxofovujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/71577950289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/20931815759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/58308480265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmilenio.net/datamont/userfiles/file/26314689744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fd4255bbf---17336478219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/fisepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d44102f32---95545050998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektromig.pl/userfiles/file/647101602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/tejuwuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents/files/veberupazobosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ed422bf7c---58647176451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/2957165963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/xovisabupofupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pro9apps.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/navafaxuwep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodivubusotixovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=type+chinese+on+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_off0000d5f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F8 19664 bytes
SHA-256: 04401f5a0e2964b33f74030fb9fb6f42be368a26490467316871b5ea044e1e39
font_01_sfnt_off0001091d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091D 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 224571d84f9b1c954812de9cd5bc007843d31da9c9b12c2b8d25ffa8221b9964
font_02_sfnt_off0001211f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1211F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1