Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6be0ed4a23382c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e889e8b2fcb94bdd8682ca729e7cc9d SHA-1: 59dab007f75767d8b71157e862ff03abb5c10260 SHA-256: ce6be0ed4a23382c9f2091cba45944c1d3d1b74da6972f5427c5418cae0ecb8e
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and presents itself as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic also suggests a potential callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b39e5d4c55595afb42b3c79c10941e7/jerix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/24384612494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608687676c736---xijiweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livresdarts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24884400917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/20784881967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/witezaroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.lu/userfiles/files/luronif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda43ab3780---50638184331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/sumedofobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48b7dd17ed---95637851006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bda5cb8420f82bfbd35066b83ad5406/paparuzaduwatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/70805333310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autovoda.ru/upload/files/41780047976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ernakulamarchdiocese.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53656259112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/73875709434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajakegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8e8674517---35895588442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609554cc6ac9b---vijagidirovuvemekulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef72287946---9381909537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/64196527912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuss.it/file/79895845761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/49026545366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alajwakh.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/pabetefobujavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fiwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/jenalabulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=linear+and+nonlinear+programming+nash+pdfPDF 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_off000106d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D4 18312 bytes
SHA-256: 2813e8349f26bdd2c17d9fa8e30754de82fdd4649485a51ba033ce73b30b9bb4
font_01_sfnt_off000136fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FE 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 17454d69b03bed959140952269cde9ad8d1a1277163eeb0ebd4eee212a3be3aa
font_02_sfnt_off00014f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1