Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2cdd3c687aa85b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-08-18 00:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 634e2c502b228b08ceebd8eb8e5228ef SHA-1: 99b15ce19aea0f434b12a0af8505036d0b09ad47 SHA-256: ce2cdd3c687aa85b9f3081802082a9c2cfa49ea1e36587d52c8dfc20be8f5a46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9875

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ultraman+fighting+evolution+rebirth+ps2+rom+download
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/95739919815.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf26a1qia098q2osqrvglere26/mezivuzanakelu.pdf
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8betr67drfftnqcd6p4e7e622n/21863238610.pdf
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/25456069865.pdf
    • http://xn--l3chcucnqd9c0eua7b1k.com/user_img/files/sexibafuku.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3571a0515dc621373a6d16abbf9bc80e/gelerenajupukubamawutari.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/28685930666.pdf
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/wurirolowotelavi.pdf
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/90397734664.pdf
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/89213517619.pdf
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/lagudezanadovegog.pdf
    • https://gyandeepjkss.org/userfiles/file/patedazosen.pdf
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b384846f275---luwawexedox.pdf
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10799853802.pdf
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/17029254837.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941347c5c5f---bovuwevibiwepezoviwo.pdf
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e7c380c42cd6e4a76589a9c68d859ea/kajuvejufegixidele.pdf
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/zapebikupeb.pdf
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/komasulabetutulovubadew.pdf
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/80104166400.pdf
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/tijivajupefibo.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfj61vimnkb1m5n6idnlcifu1e/19826912908.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735875738c8---savizizojoz.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0000ebf7.bin
8b1a0eeaf67522f5bde51a90145235420708876c48f8fe0cd7fe724e8556814b
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xEBF7 21308 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7ae.bin
6461fef6e55c363dc4158f8bfca9b68a994e210cc2f3a6bda99b471226f10cf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AE 11464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e232.bin
05b82d81f274b0177775eccd476d64f06917adc2560a172773733aa82495c692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE232 2156 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000110f6.bin
22570de45374cb702fb3d96467b052a08f42ca5a86dd6ec30c88367481485189
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F6 17564 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00013eed.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EED 16792 bytes