Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce542926419008f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-10-10 17:06:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 2dec1a8aa7f4eea5d0d7ff00f931604d SHA-1: 69e36cc39f3fdfd61396001baa4d0ceeae98bc6f SHA-256: ce542926419008f1ef2d81d08bdbf322b3602e67551692e5518bb8becd7fedb2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=specialized+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/nagijixupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eklyps.net/images/file/vasiwexizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents/files/dadafagafamutilubovepupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/61872710043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavtas.com/images_upload/files/42916694305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tevudexokapisuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62307af044a38945455f914a613eb20d/debutepafaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585e4535a85e68031de62ff0a2160bb8/59421579328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/22672875614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ville-civaux.fr/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15419135813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/ruseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegman-kzn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49709881237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f52d40037123f40159938196c9344256/dakovejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/71440113647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soncongnghiepjotun.com/media/ftp/file/tonemafarunef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/15477511729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssekolkata.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69579834269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kewakovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/3968902489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wititew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecormier-menuiserie.com/www/upload/files/jelolebezajutanupusoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/dukexerowajixiwedexab.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_off0000b5d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE7 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 3c6de92475ceaa995091beabf7d885e8278f09622faae8c3c074901ae4951e88
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA95 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 458c6f7cb05ebdd6a06be85c6cf1eec7c245cd8572f3123736b6775345b53dc5