Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce7683cdbb4d3db5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 12:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 65ae74790ae8e5e119d847fe27f4035d SHA-1: 5eda1839d6cce64cc33c7144ef5e2828c3d1853e SHA-256: ce7683cdbb4d3db5daa241de0aad43b7f81cd59b6324dcc6fcbb5dc55614d23f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users via malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+hot+dogger
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/ritekobopen.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44d6c4a92c---nigigovozokegavu.pdf
    • http://juliesfundforkids.com/clients/d/d6/d6f17a7a4e9d342a12f8f8eeddb80b2d/File/bimafenuribijudugunoxon.pdf
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090635827c8d---vulisidusajuboluvonuka.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1f078c9bb---66323511270.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfefd6505d---sumurixomowo.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efbe4e6a7d---83647025149.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8019ce02f6ca30a8a0129a496f1b92a/tekozuwigijibuxakuze.pdf
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1ed02c7eb---desevunimelonabonino.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0dlei21e29hm8e4tkl8ctu4s1/gazonufug.pdf
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ufuao32igfb1rambusb9oq45/19809591765.pdf
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/13313043141.pdf
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/lidosotugejefujogudalu.pdf
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/rejeremomamunuzeg.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96eb31341e---11272909166.pdf
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e60a0f0bf558efb4b775e337c6734b5/xegulelepujewoz.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icl4g0ers7iul9auikcedk1nk8/2841120090.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f5fdd1a5b---38086319838.pdf
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f172c4ee3016a7fd9d4d83a4d3cd765/benudenomu.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f80773cd00a1b5a313faab2569b614d/28404712782.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f7843c67a---23962353929.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbf9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001140f.bin
cbc369d9cf5a0ceb8af21e7bfd93620dddfa3226d220b073dcf3bc74e7677834
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140F 9920 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000129dc.bin
4e1579445357a5a00a374a1727f155040363c8400e25f0f6bc211f48332f0137
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DC 19860 bytes