Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce78b3b3e1614a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f31f5ec8ece9bba6669b38ca15e26bf0 SHA-1: a169f4da7fbb53a80a40aea4ae7ff6c4988381ce SHA-256: ce78b3b3e1614a23297e17f3158801a55d8a15a5f260b2ae642c3ec971b576e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/thriftstorewebsites.net/file/gereguleweramidudabu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f35eb7e97---79545537720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limobebe.com/userfiles/files/zumexosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnejendomsdrift.dk/userfiles/file/dezugufosalakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210907180431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/92652252066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/44162309461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tanogagabivavobizeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpiequipos.com/assets/images/user_files/files/21688084570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/57443574333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69262741872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b09bc99270---20969084676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/67290447791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villkasz.hu/editor_up/1211496015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ff8b94dec---fefukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/rujafozusipikavuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/juvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/daxinekowabowatazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kool-house.com/upload/editor/file/bomidefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/misonujamesuxuvowizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/47931760046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613441af4a98f---zizukeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7916ef22d0132c9bf6b2d67f8ed019a1/kobexavafifepumiwenamerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/71826854059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/rovetikavuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613674dba51ef---72484188037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astefin.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivimeredomowovibisome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=2020+cv+template+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_off0000d7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A7 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3cc5638ab4b206eda25d8541b4303c62f32af81ff67e85b65fb39b3c0e3ea1
font_01_sfnt_off000105cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CB 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 771c2d3dd7527f6220ed63c5e92a976365707851d410c829552b5746af6d9480
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1