Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce496bc897afcba8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 23:48:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: da052b3085e9ca22387c058682a27e65 SHA-1: 766a1a67a6a79f7b529b1afdf0fa9fe1029d2208 SHA-256: ce496bc897afcba8cf1015e163196abc120e2afbbd412ea8d89644ae6e916dc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous links to PDFs on compromised CMS upload directories points towards a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5ef5f04d8---visalefitoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7c94b1269---zajilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af35593817aa1fe8aea6d816caff92e/60192476553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac4ae5db71---fajokolurisogibiwizodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/nevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59fd7a2e23---sujowozovapujaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92bf486f3ed164b365ce8e8c00b658b/80813863379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafikifilalozukonidofizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210618_155925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96d48fa03dc9a469926e45fe91e8173b/82761087468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210622161923_1618173278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/72930520837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/78323129710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hufiles/76943183046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/33281419774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4853de46f---bebawoxerasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5222bc6085bb5229883e149cf38e17/44469529848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/72641459726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5228c1ef787017101e93b86be2f49ad/mivagisifajurubodotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/23394179857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e59530bb43406ee30c1fed276e059d8/21442950152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079448c0fbbe---42819844726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmh5ugsia133fu435simbfs6mb/tixipudadini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e777a8e9c56---90561773422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+ac+market+for+pcPDF 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_off0000e8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E5 10700 bytes
SHA-256: efff124da4bfdd792a043f09e464b7112b8343120cb06cdc6814a23d52567e76
font_01_sfnt_off00010182.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10182 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11994 18368 bytes
SHA-256: 763c2bd66dcb66a1954d6c91ae17cf8a23e6f008cb99e11acfded8d2d76ab704