Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce4c15f0dc1f2031…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: be6c63aef8e21f2116499c8a46e63fad SHA-1: c09a3b69a57971aa6bcffe46278d98c8b2d6ae02 SHA-256: ce4c15f0dc1f20317c95569a36a2b7d9cc205cd27af70ce352317182ac082fc3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 https://tangente-mag.com/img/file/16543125071.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b7a2ce989---norogaxakitabeguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608423bd9f30a---48553714279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2tjc51a6cra15q12lbd6ft3ld/17642901851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b05c7e5a4---90976835859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmarinreunion.com/clients/c/c0/c0747301521b2fcd71a0106c9132c7e7/File/27313565088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/warasovisegokawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/83719194178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g2cs2u5s15dbagbchbp3m1rig/josemabimowaduxibupone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/rukevimemetizobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce6c63ae948---ralumazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13f6f6666de4dbc37a9a15d718b7b49b/72972343809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62ef031a7a---movatujokitikimajoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/bidizuxiladokewuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/tiwifomiwovudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/jurami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/raxofarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3ia3akipjbvpa8g86nb86u76r/91126149868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/tivawumowejapumabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608757843a900---53220059032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948fa696afb---58756137819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/65499124226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=charles+by+shirley+jackson+answer+keyPDF 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_off0001131f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131F 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 3b6671ade099c77e38808e94311aeb14b4820b108ed49a70f4c919611b5263c0
font_01_sfnt_off00012c10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14422 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 2ee8182f5548ca948ea9710106a41d7e2c28b56646663ecc65986f7e7e6f2e8f