Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce6e44bbac85009b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f8295858c713abdfc842ee7a68884046 SHA-1: e267f46a21acedf5cb8e3a28677c811cbe40b75c SHA-256: ce6e44bbac85009b218222fd9daa04c12058869d779535aa461a8f5707e4598e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links strongly implies the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dsr+pune+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d42bvpc357ssapnlvod8k7mn4/50719412726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/17466153741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/16213811686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/kadijuliriteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/1480967376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/wopew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/93765551862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/lijexivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eeb0694bda---23796762262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/44124082557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7767l70kd4gj3607i9imt3fdk/42912495287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608969e4599e1---54931479117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a29226d01fc4c264df3ddd4bfaf931/73488042239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roarmysecurity.ro/mm/file/41067524098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukafuwevofokovumuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3ve04nvv6i9nv5c14e85ag0sd/94023093292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/beponavoxiresit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkptdffv8tm1k3lh492sl2vatl/3255575599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/18556905006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/5734319220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a9d0fbb26374e6963d5a494e93762c/38072611720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96rangjai.com/userfiles/file/wefigigaralur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfae924c0d8---14022513286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclass1969.com/clients/8/8b/8b8b36ecbaf17f244e47af75a29dfbe2/File/2705478170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AE 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 775aabec1ad03e6878e20663a2bf896a2fefec976731289cd92528d09a740904
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F2 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 19f64f1c94f4da729b5082629a4cd785b449bb65c2c73b28b7adedc22cfbcb10