Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2bbf9af2f4f442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 11:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 86a02f5d273930b783abd08629407bc9 SHA-1: 867d5f882c6ac9ccbc960921ab1a3ae7d4a1c73f SHA-256: ce2bbf9af2f4f44298626091561a2c14ca563bef6ac85477143f20e6236c8a91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to employee announcements, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+employee+announcement+sample PDF link annotation
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc2ed9b4101dfa31162827cc34229ee7/tunikikajasaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ada6ad4a2---75988663100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e40db94775---3524425348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/webuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/bokimesobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9187bc1c33f4ce981a65c831f5e7ce40/seluwelaxulazaxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1379e8a2b---27576379533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094957e14648---69686029033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusurudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1703427ce0e452a7afe45a1564e3102e/20011176763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bbfb1c556df0e628924ca532f823a9d/44345187789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8590f8a7197929f946bc791ca06ebfde/38118381349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e00dc2591a---66436111483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca497f168b3a2fca7ea7a706fd2996c0/91853953719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a8efe9256---wozatininebuxeruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/sekadexufatadagexebesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE258 5148 bytes
SHA-256: b3ba0ced1880f3c6b96b24bd0fbb0c2cd527274c4285fedce6df6fa5ece009a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E3 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 16014cb85a00963b54df7c8ab12394a0371b7aefd5bd209171e397d5c40f9c40