Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce7d1a27dd705c1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf4573868fbd5c338452f19c6a9ed2ef SHA-1: 70ebdca2eec065c16792fc178764a97f854694d4 SHA-256: ce7d1a27dd705c1d48fb5e21d7a7eade5b8e9aa2f6fb5ec4ed44e582a11e801f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, leveraging the 'Spearphishing Attachment' technique. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=five+letter+words+a+to+z PDF link annotation
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3876a516757e57710f143e027df2d84/nasutabesorezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riminabda.sk/userfiles/file/bodapurijogasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/jaxavazejarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/2629874594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/88657279230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/17175454170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snieznik.pl/userfiles/file/lapofuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d79e7919d2---3617806035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigomejevaporatubadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decisionstogo.com/fck_image/file/tadewekitubejanasugubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romengo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3226356654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c277cc7eeaf0ee19a2163d198cff1ee/2372235580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://german-ex.com/images/blog/file/sowesararebudokelivogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/96387113779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412e5781d12---67123352980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/fovebojurovituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/jodafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gulbaharsigorta.com/contentData/file/66210119645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicfriend.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/23971959700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e4ca483ff---45073088648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138215131ad5---21951925259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibosubewusizuboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/vaximejopinoger.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_off0000ce23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE23 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 3939cfac03365da07a6ce9b85249f84f8fe7ff164a031b56f0a3d9b84dbd09e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB6 18168 bytes
SHA-256: df6b65379a9671dd0e689f6d830b6acb0b867eb52d14a6efd3623bedb462331e