Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce2d35f8c145acf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-18 01:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d94c78252c74d8aca1db4f6adb2c64ca SHA-1: 833ae155c8bb7ec243786310463788472e99371e SHA-256: ce2d35f8c145acf5a6132c50b4a52ee643c83421f31f756ce9224f68291c2de1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures to direct users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c246ebcc99f8d17b9bbea8953330c03d/43666371361.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8113ec92d3---46902313898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7c1ea54e---jodoxapunumako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/folekatuzigiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/vitixopuwabawezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/pozidefojivonaregawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/78530845966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/34629362855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86b3f6e55ca5c97560edc8a3c4d979bc/65557858784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xipaxafutujeketuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef9c7cf98718316e33628dd10e971d74/56968135249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c1d976609d97f0bf7c9283d93dbd99c/1857572943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7817f2e05eb2acc6045a22ccd2bf094/foxejokujamosugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/99551835917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad97210ad---47306788325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=words+to+rudolph+the+red+nosed+reindeer+printablePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1DB 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 7308b72c9360669f7e9dd6254ea03d6c53069da45498f979c0a46dd30e513b36
font_01_sfnt_off00010316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10316 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 79fd45bc085460b85602e01ce8388acc1f37afa0071eb4753cbfb43fdd2b1bce
font_02_sfnt_off00012870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12870 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378