Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce5a1e50111c136e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 06:19:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5dcbbfd34b153f35a02889342bb93a39 SHA-1: 6fa2e5fd6f79fb8b2ebdb1965316a4d65c7d5305 SHA-256: ce5a1e50111c136e63a0a4de9f11a9a63bd23ddd0d4f38e0288f611e86c271a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of creating link farms on potentially malicious or compromised hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of these link farms suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9298cbf38b6edd8a9ee2e0ef080b00e2/21919670045.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cm91humu8pk8c8lbisorsck2v/gugewupopukika.pdf
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/57675807597.pdf
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c84c8efa70c846facbc7127f40051d5b/katumogilex.pdf
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/tiwenidimizaje.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cfcbc09d14b8bca29706b32a8bf34d5/sanubuzakobafaradapez.pdf
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36328327562.pdf
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rexebu.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vt65ulu8v4uer9f08pdnbih9hj/9986700584.pdf
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73hedtb0o0um78ch09ackfuk9f/11821568894.pdf
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210604_085014.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/faxowokolotonidukaxofone.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e5756d988---41034139336.pdf
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/16360216606.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/pajodaxogalasusavun.pdf
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/76013425136.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/ferudurovimenug.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d851d5a5da1304f279baa0e6f5229d9f/38129679338.pdf
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe8fd0ee1cb8db9fc25842524cc217a/58156463930.pdf
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/71293654631.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0ba0b91a4---45590077758.pdf
    • https://appfacile.it/file/4008617258.pdf
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7ad0c0641de7165a531ac860a0ea41/28873337448.pdf
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b444434d6a5---35645058010.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/62516502163.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=french+bread+nutrition+info
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a77.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A77 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001428e.bin
fb2169a00969a155f127cbfb027d4ee044d7b7ad8400b3924b9f8e2f7f5492d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428E 10576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015a89.bin
9f711ee0cbaa1e1593aad48c850d2c91a3328174c160a8615092c26054da67c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A89 17168 bytes