Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce859d75d0e22b8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 20:38:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7f022d61da677f9c3c96ac3c0cedc409 SHA-1: d7990a52ec39e0096ae90fa8f5f262bf6d1da64f SHA-256: ce859d75d0e22b8b4acae53923f1fc94fe7d5ef356750363f58733919a82dc98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm, including links to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=atomic+radius+chart+for+elements PDF link annotation
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50537999383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/tojawopuvepuwakasivunewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viwixaxaxifupuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4362001456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81872272599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/81119883779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sangolongphuong.vn/longphuong/news/files/ronixigovowalewefufevatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/pejojewivotilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/9810518106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-pluset.com/userfiles/nepusiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40834545483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202109140033283120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kio2827lb3ish9rttut3h765s7/susatozegesexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/99763754380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bb5b7639c6a9bceb48b79a9eb2e95a/22180983810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ead0c9233---728132327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1630578609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xewojogepepinifavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/kinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/gibusukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97133374741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/rujogesizajuzafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/wozilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/bixazutumegufilepubimito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/poxego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fab5e4c455---fulipokimexuwez.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_off0000dcf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF3 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 52eae442701f0d9daad10851f5533d394c59ed69b84be76e8725c3b354374df6
font_01_sfnt_off000107d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D5 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 611f77b8c13a1baea89908feacc269ddad1a86300a1a004aa9ce27c80d3073d8
font_02_sfnt_off000120a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1