Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce8fb08acd40f69d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:47:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d81949b1e5e4e7b4217cd7f347c83c43 SHA-1: 1661169a85195383a50734521bd328abf61ea82a SHA-256: ce8fb08acd40f69deced4719204f374b61da283aaee35dc190c61f210cabb679
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a malformed exploit stream. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, including WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of numerous external links indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/64046631429.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb744672ac---43236732392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingthegradetexas.com/clients/d/d4/d4716c73f098ea79da165a2194b6736a/File/45833239820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/dakogamubaninibuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpwlawpa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ruxemifugiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2320c618c9d6b84e4401a7e9d6a2ba45/sosurasevikozelexetureja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c73b0e190---75484032857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b47c1f417cef91aa5dec8066ceb7c42/buxatotaxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021061403004534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/39207449088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/nomavifisurabam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/xosewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3af04ad5fc1af3d5cd0af109b8601b0/xofasafosomanilibevejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/tisuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/pamazesuzasunutaparibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/67606381879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/77952715645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacbab60f442d2a270d4e75d97ee6ec0/26511261337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/55279434920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/21251563736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad179b6fbcc---64028159058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+the+floor+tnt+in+minecraftPDF 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_off0000f7bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCF 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 3eb0d885d96b0d51bca3c6e56121ce18d411f1e30279873c75d2e6792d1ad0de
font_02_sfnt_off00013d86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D86 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 393b5d723abad99936c799b81623027a315c345665559593bbbb84cb7f658466