Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce8791000042e2fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5cf59855ff5cce35446d4f43ae38557b SHA-1: 908526e6799456490bcb6aae71736a2ec139677e SHA-256: ce8791000042e2fa9c65adbc6c6a2057e1a85770d63e38ebeab3e5b64c94f832
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing attempts, indicating a spearphishing attachment vector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=common+and+proper+nouns+worksheets+for+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceadde63132---52403637488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4c2d26c081dd51e6ca0b3884e211f11/44243520725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109021347004601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255806d357580931dfa55c9c575d527d/nufoperarisujafowosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pablohernandes.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623a76031405f31ff21fc3b00e643b8c/vovimedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/mowajokukomivozevorobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b07591681b---lolubumevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedaxabaropunelulitegosij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9ngpd14fsvjhc2alt7rrb8a8h/xibobitorije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/69732954183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/57231223227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/vafowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607807e9815f0---31073597964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/godosusonige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/nadelazozamabopesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaoducvietnamtv.com/images/ckeditor/files/mujavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161349313df1ac---93114671365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aa-nusd.jp/lisuluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608714c5e4291---beruwibezugudifepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e002edea3---17057310594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents/files/35858378384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpressup.com/userfiles/file/34959542772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiari-web.com/ckfinder/optimist/files/59337657206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/54656664711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/getugebili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607468d3c4735---95018299861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e69981c368---fatiwojajajima.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_off0000d52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD52E 11208 bytes
SHA-256: f238672d40c1f422a445d1b582f1945923eb5d405ecfa1d580807fed39138f40
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF18 16560 bytes
SHA-256: f49fd563d3193ff25733afaad03eb238822156c18248be92f547586e2b0b29d9
font_02_sfnt_off000119a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1