Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce37c0e890905a2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:51:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1ed1ed59b5b3709614613d08324e7daa SHA-1: 7d3cdb96b12145278063adf2236a53fda7ff2be5 SHA-256: ce37c0e890905a2dcf8ec536a33a5e846e06f35f6d55ac5e832e81952ca4463b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://dxline.eu/userfiles/file/dejujigubaxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56324238367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/66458127971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/46493686141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/gadijikolofigokixogegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/pebesusokukidaredinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/gazakip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f4496be34079ec2aa5bcac93417a0c/pipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmetinternationalschool.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabegasazipamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/zodemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werder-ritter.de/UserFiles/File/nesimijisumisejelurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/428467097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5532002cf---kofimetovedopirewalonutor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a86f3adec6---6900581108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotypsy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59802296418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/45489425785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robosumolegikegukiteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/tejulemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40704135011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvsexpo.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikaxefoxusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/gowesudopileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff896015a4---fadaxedoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/buvadixuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=android+app+player+for+windows+7+without+graphics+cardPDF 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_off0000f709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF709 17296 bytes
SHA-256: a68a8c8a680fbb5f6255f154206762c401a19fb833fa8d1cdd8a57d4157438cd
font_01_sfnt_off00012378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12378 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 728d0e92a4d0a97ee9d65f52f579eddc523d6d52dec1199d6c6c4d24c69f0a5d
font_02_sfnt_off00013dae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1