Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce394407f2d4c341…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 13:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a59caf31ca4a9d3303bd8eee7bb55d68 SHA-1: ffa7058bb5934022a0f18e1f21dd815b14d46f35 SHA-256: ce394407f2d4c3419fe2ebae132fbf135b2c8d3b3e7f9a476467418bac5e3790
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://twilaw.com/files/files/xigajuror.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/50415446793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orhs86reunion.com/clients/6/67/6744625166a0df26c7abb40948833271/File/bowadotozaguroxamineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607519e75173e---kefilijenobodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/809fb39c36bf751a298f360033d8dfb8/tudogejinuzovitanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/xasobujawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/22690521717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdncp2nq05bne9s258p8n1mog0/1485977635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/mimanesuzametarojamivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112f2b9325ad---62243636673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/xabete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegedelunion.com/clients/76066/File/taximazegipotuluweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bea954c153---4143928499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/sipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a882f58bc7b---29204492462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/jafoxibezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6f6ac6f75---zibedubuwisubebaxagimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/61312660269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//robobexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/rejitiwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a25b9579---nibupuludipifaporadofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/85050464484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aczelzalog.hu/tmp/dufugifizaziribeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mcmillan+options+as+a+strategic+investment+pdfPDF 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_off000129cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000141de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141DE 18660 bytes
SHA-256: 91c6a774287a5df574e5e1c90dfe504ee6415c0de8f66071867fc94673ee7630
font_02_sfnt_off0001732a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1732A 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 711aee4538660384d106c7fd9fe503d6fdbd7ceac0447e7c909cb5024214b1f8

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