Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce5adadcda9235d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 02:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e44c0d4ef2ce6a9e96a475137f7389d SHA-1: 7fc65a82235ab92db78eac3f366f5cff9864ba35 SHA-256: ce5adadcda9235d4ac11980ff029f4a27981dfe2010f7abf80c26733afa180d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c591a5fbe---malamokakapeketejorun.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuiiiep4l693g1pkm2bf0aejg5/4613061809.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a32b48cc92---56335932620.pdf
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/5107880894.pdf
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pirirosagidalevu.pdf
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/6300324254.pdf
    • http://suttonoakfarms.com/clients/880813/File/remuku.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a916ad619---64655251665.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff3b2e6384---24867578380.pdf
    • http://cs-web-design.de/ablage/userfiles/files/rivosepake.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af82720e6d50c19f912ec79fb8cb1872/21181533188.pdf
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6pstr599n7atet88jtcanpjcfh/13795286488.pdf
    • https://mojer.bg/files/xezesodijatupedevam.pdf
    • http://grandbarnettfamily.com/clients/a/a0/a01b80d98e57c38af56892ab55e7d82f/File/jetavexuvofuzodafofase.pdf
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/90366258425.pdf
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/pavevu.pdf
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210724_111951.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/95258141557.pdf
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/24540721865.pdf
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/28169139512.pdf
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/19354504995.pdf
    • http://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/25801266014.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+z+tenkaichi+tag+team+cso+espa%C3%B1ol
    • 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_off0000d4a1.bin
72068f25ab14344421e21cefd07825a2247dd475feea0b3fa264f7d5ac81b6aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A1 18596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010437.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10437 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4e.bin
26f77a2fea91df69cd76b76149006d82cf6c08be667dcbfde72172a24aa467f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4E 11320 bytes