Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce7d6eb300e0d3ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 094a8eb90403ee65201103ca288ed56d SHA-1: 98045290570bab8f468f809c675f7698b15c315a SHA-256: ce7d6eb300e0d3ad2e361b93e389f0b43ca941a9e45805d073eda455145afc65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or hosted on disposable domains. The primary function seems to be directing users to external content, potentially for phishing or SEO manipulation, rather than executing embedded code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+the+central+science+12th+edition+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729eeda0f62---84801081261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/54549304849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/61884976835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/39850932717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/50221879660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/bamebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec7cf4a01d6f8271ab8f80f7586d28b/2534426900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/pesijazezarogakutemoxabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e00fe088401bb2e86fc893f4b91e7f61/juvozinutomopigofoseri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc48ac05106---629149150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080da3b579f6---mojuxusexena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab69034ab21---94980250535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/mimonisabuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a96f78a2da---73319644853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebbe242f2ea436e22fde7b554c635a95/14502292098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a272e4c5335---5872950018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/gosoboxuvupatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5676ba67d162d4229f3bbd7140e647a/89859140375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6913b762dfc2f4e9d855573aef346732/fawotewenajiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/64164291579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d94d9f9da---nejoreke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f75976f52---93760909718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/mafebabes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq8beh1ihiib69qlh12uid8br1/xisosutigifulutexanaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5e0e84e5d---devigakis.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD228 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 1d6f0a80bead11b2138be496bb9a7c0aa83caa61ecfb8017c5148387202e5cec
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E8 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13
font_03_sfnt_off00010bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEC 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 60ebcce8f5c10125fce3e34f408e09c2d4e9ac98df402287745b61a6539a5fdb