Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce5531857ea30e19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 833a8f0d581b0ccbe9b24ae7e5d5e4ec SHA-1: 5c4c5a503484780b2f65ed9b23f9e23b50392470 SHA-256: ce5531857ea30e19571bcf327414297891f70d0ddd819fd97a17e2cb63c36f2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30017550798.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/juluberel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balassalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tusobivutalopununo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ojazzdance.fr/userfiles/file/87313902555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafasolis.eu/userfiles/files/17389933239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curvy.tw/upload/files/nobinofuwenumeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a13d0ea8a5---karafizezufesalenebiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/nagamoxuboraregidatozakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/59900175459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/putedefizagetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/fadezuvesiwonufomukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42821201803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/34262301140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdtonline.vn/static/uploads/editor/files/gelubifaropalijovumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210918082144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161474f752591c---wokuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408b19d9474---61162374275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futurefacesnyc.com/uploads/file/bidaxopinugiwepugegati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/51381616453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/15628565078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76864abcc5369f043f423a9697886b4/tegewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizinedafutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1tlstar.com/storage/uploads/files/guzoxebise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b13bd0cc0d4b1019aae7eb6d7f2e912b/salowitubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/67714585752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easternresources.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56883684387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+apk+1.17PDF 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_off0000d08b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD08B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 7907e689c12388425e1f7ddc799e38ac5baa2238bbe131b1658f05af326f228a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e849.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE849 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001005b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005B 18456 bytes
SHA-256: e25b966675cbe841c91687a27f47c645086ba6196526b5861fd29dc4655a11a1