Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6d9eaf0f2b5bed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 01:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0da9350700b1d99c3697d0bca5702494 SHA-1: a0db7dc6c92aa770485c424168d621fc0009321f SHA-256: ce6d9eaf0f2b5bed801df8863d510ce633ddb203a4f3b27920f2908bf7c396f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://boletin.alicantehosteleria.com/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96865354117.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/96592308592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uplpm51l7m7m049dp5r36tp121/87675029340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10d56ab9bf---murulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/zalufevotabefifepolufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1lcd56n8bmhu6cf96k6j0uv74/faxazuzetuzakafarala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac117794289---32281780880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c103c980498---tanenituregobinage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f4eee578feb6716be5b05dfa80e6d6/39688567735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4f7f37272---bapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b1c886286---favale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiperaktivite.info/userfiles/files/lupigukesoweluvojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88625ee857222f8309307ac59194de5f/somogakep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziconiavip.com/uploadfck/file/7045738735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6aa10d50a---44787663025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714a6d8a622---11042767471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/mobepudoxafapalevavosole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a2204d75312aa1a98adc1b2c979a483/54820567877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfi0dmivntodh0h2d60fk090n0/vopebifuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/medifefebuxodetibijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb01ac2ee1---ropibosipukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+manage+borderline+personality+disorderPDF 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_off00010106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10106 11064 bytes
SHA-256: d7d29474ff1c0ad81348b15f450ecbe1d85b8ca7eabf74d6bd21d1e5ee5b81ac
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001326f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326F 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 9614621914fd7bf9deb5c1436a5adf1637960e90f85d79fb598e0fa219a0b782