Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce67d7ef5706152d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-10 01:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3dbca8aba5f39c69396196c5a433de03 SHA-1: fc8a77724ede4adec7b915bbc1436726f857e287 SHA-256: ce67d7ef5706152d91e06915d4f9ae2cc7a18ccae84dbe245990ee3a315284a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is designed to obscure its malicious intent rather than convey information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210607201943.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e025f71039a3167fb69f0ae01e17642b/87564229395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e58e9135fa4---11105233222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c593a90c37a---65474069777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattersonandoliphantfamily.com/clients/875492/File/87169588503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adbaf9fcb4---97929920428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/nezofivoniwivesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh9pkl9944bdd8nglanb55agm2/xixefajakid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcajbq2207a6got3dt6cpcm05j/joluvinimuxarexofuvexotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2da816bb35---19647042476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/dagorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cskp76moq4kunpq7mpji76hdtv/punogewikuzesoxikibume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210618115909372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/25411121312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f6bd219795939248c48fe5951f7463/11454825118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16214914622243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44jp43183s0dt6115j3jcestq4/votugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a557dd75f0a5dd9ec6971b456e3c0d19/subimajalexosikudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/nilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/sojalasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bb2dcd99c---49506553795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///88407743266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/44285198839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=zelda%27s+lullaby+keyboard+notesPDF 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_off0000e1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AC 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 98f342e837240b7d75daef7f1624c060351f7aaafd9a84a775e7287f13615a3b
font_01_sfnt_off00011026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11026 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 5dc3385ec8e03c4aa92479317e5d3b95eb1427a35234eeb076d1434b831de771
font_02_sfnt_off00012894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12894 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1