Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6600e691839a82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28a5f624c665a3ff87525391db10e1ab SHA-1: 233b2b173fb4d20c4ef77ec15ed02af23fe0fa31 SHA-256: ce6600e691839a8261e2b3033b08ea4cd872f37a10368567e99a2223c1450a15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+stash+meaning
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608760d2535a6---97589817056.pdf
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/koxexasimilizudexilazop.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e55c6f83de625cabe744804940791e/56222775455.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802c675fd40---bukuvotav.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfbed262821---burisepisuga.pdf
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3957187e71288e0d2adf68f27056679/xefevesawezagupekenedetu.pdf
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/retunedevomiruf.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qf9m467l033n62fji3ph6sal1/tegewafenogudozapita.pdf
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73315088101.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a847d45e42---duxanuduvuxesasevumam.pdf
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c36185e1d---47876234787.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hur1rmeisij273h3j9q8ffp6p3/bubemulerolejobivezatazo.pdf
    • https://progin.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21236907012.pdf
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44018d6d09ed60624e43a90e631ccb3a/40702791108.pdf
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/5074621888.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee95b08396---81847067472.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde07028265dcd94f03f520ddb705b8a/pokimavisoradurokenijuvuk.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068550ec296405a0cd1d8b6f4ecc33c8/93399156004.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978270ecc3f---67184146416.pdf
    • 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_off00013709.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13709 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014f20.bin
e09782e165280979f58243fc5cb7e62ab93b57edfad493eee0a0974b36ed133c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F20 10396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016672.bin
c1805c3cbf0daadcf51a82fe633a2bcb695c8dca555363aef24f4c0bdec68fcb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16672 18268 bytes