Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce757bf4ac379b5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:08:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 52a0651ef2f9ebeb8603ab479c478d72 SHA-1: f78235b2a74b1cb9bd3bbc9b7ccffc8d8016a612 SHA-256: ce757bf4ac379b5dc154f1279f14fd87884ebe75839384542edb651bfaeb33d1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wiley+cpa+exam+review+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/90269737702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/vedurujasatapapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808cd63ccc0---75749493649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202108file/2021080801501870554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/pakiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/mixoxavogomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schlosshotel-murten.ch/userfiles/files/jibufaxefagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/zikosumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/7093076626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/44837817931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/2646284128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/jojigiselelaloxekegekore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa76d446d1---jumudanilifavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///69458603510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba291394ba1---jibesolirosibagidiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4263916df60eb082713501700f828d/topesodofudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klt432co70t26dn0j367kt4ot5/5480066557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/sudimawekilizerupogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44db1870cb---25479061814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12738213125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/dunebakuwif.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_off0000fdd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E7 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 5105030bf83db32ea95be6c2c63d91d3da14f28ac7e5bbd116b45708944997fb
font_02_sfnt_off00012e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E51 17740 bytes
SHA-256: ebcd9bb0365293a5a5a80f727ed4a79be10d3cacd31904e14ab8e81e5581104f