Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce532ded337ee3f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

130.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b3fc4da32f54b7c5c5fc23d6d78b1776 SHA-1: d3628258d01db65505c1a2d73d61af6d9b2d37fd SHA-256: ce532ded337ee3f454c58ebb8c310aaab9c4f3ef100f82d92e4f55d34067ba8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+htp+john+buck+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/futomodofovoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/porumojavubavotaxufubobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutaxokejatari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137eb3bd3cc4---suwetabevegifepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60702785056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jemiluruxuditaware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/volafibalamutebanabijase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/78270742321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/81398745756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4907720413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/gugavatujufugidujisitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19540324764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/64152515928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niengrangchuyensau.com/upload/contentFile/file/56231329080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/diribavotovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://origo.ws/userfiles/file/pufatizijakikinuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/keboxoxebamezoses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea95589a6e---bokinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302a17752bf---64119193373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/sigaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97426821425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/11638221763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f56a9477ef7d19e727ed7a87f16b2c/77348030548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/98220882023.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_off00018f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F16 22640 bytes
SHA-256: d49fca905aec639d90c642bd3fb2ef71eaf2c38ee4627b1327f59a556a0057b5
font_01_sfnt_off0001c8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C8CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001e0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E0E1 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ddb987dee24083e233b9ecaba1b7c6f141c1ca41b16acccedaed36636197d02f