Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce84056bd8a83946…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5a353d0213bb96c5a0bee4d4a425a4fb SHA-1: ff3ffdd1456d7c737df335480761a5018ff80e19 SHA-256: ce84056bd8a83946779facb0f0b5e320991fb8bd2501b9a95c6f8f05d02c1440
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While the document body is unreadable, the presence of these links suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7568c5c0b3---robured.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407e029fa99234af0da6585f78779195/5067306264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab79690f913---44829367020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21902fe8577c8c53d43ef5f18f27e5a4/70504577878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a3525a60f7689b8789ea9ca2a97006b/22237920878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21848a7a0d---29033457018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff318f28da3cf4ddff2d5b84ab374c12/mipusuwuzakapinutawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a5e804a61eb7d64a1877df4936d26c2/76131699217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/13884744785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/74502029862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c714b4aabbcab4e833dfd6f2d4defb/gixisodesidekedogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94e30c5120e2e95dd8c0ffe61b941665/newosekukilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7374278e6c2e44acdb6a23b7374a07f3/wusatigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/5783_20210607214258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5dd9fb754818710016271ec405d663b/39301835675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02f4de3d36530ae4f1f9e9a690c67218/42889951619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/20216196193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/63595313442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0511044001623561154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29537397068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160831b8b5127a---xidupebavujesiluzigimare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/dizivuduguzesamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaa309a181---79422047119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=100+pesos+in+indian+rupeesPDF 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_off0000b322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB322 10420 bytes
SHA-256: d72f1858e0fb00191558b8816a1fbc7bb77c0f0e51ceaf971ea7a070d075609d
font_01_sfnt_off0000cad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD2 14960 bytes
SHA-256: 6f9b9216502a0bbd67ba10f15c969cf275d509da6717d8875d4ee2ab3d742448
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1