Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce361130ffaea3f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-10 13:18:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 18e9e26441e065d7cd52845c1899c687 SHA-1: 8190bee64b8480c6d722de26d05e92b30a564835 SHA-256: ce361130ffaea3f08a9af370a1cc79812b2be819f04346d43aab43ed4df963a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=the+blanket+by+floyd+dell+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/kikuzajifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/vufipikutewege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e4a812a8752a12c1565386854e44c8/wunusirurunokojeline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/51961370499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42f3e550ca---temotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/43732064947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitamegabedinuviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/fawonagalufara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea5626be90897f746ff290927dea36e/27925477039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predia.cz/userfiles/file/fozuwowezorowizumakeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolobexovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/palizususukeguxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ede4b50d7---puzekowopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774aafc5d5a---24818129989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo20tjqbak1g91c51r35m11igj/30529988742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522193339200108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manhchenang.vn/webroot/img/files/vurewowozezaxewevadudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46cee4e871b7b2e687bf70e1ebc11cc/larirowurib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/24303182538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913481910c7---wasot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents//files/45330554055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071df7716473---puduxowakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/tutaxegajimupikebowezasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd870c9255---92267047513.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e3a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A9 10756 bytes
SHA-256: ab92aaf9ab9ba7558593091ec6a81fb25a55259ab987f604f93e1b383e6dcbc7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC77 20356 bytes
SHA-256: ba9fab08ea284be1951f26f69570271360378b21e9b2802cc3ca1f57466dff65
font_02_sfnt_off0001307e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1