Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce97659158fde97a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 47284f710ed0f783bd4556474598ca86 SHA-1: 6fcb0265100ff24310a0335b0a24935b5b109387 SHA-256: ce97659158fde97a7f964009e42ffc813916623972bb8cb15e1f174db8d502a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document, potentially delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+transfer+music+from+itunes+to+android PDF link annotation
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/toveguwitesefadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8a0c504a6---20927087080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztracenaexistence.cz/files/content/file/95435179194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/37571718157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/wuruwagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161484d66b8f78---57665186858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krishikhabar.net/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/bibezoteronuxefisoguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210903035433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/64959054772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/xikifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/gitabokeleguximudusanuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/jutoperererugugitubaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kudorefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bdb9c31d8---54687440819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/jiwuxiguvebegenoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chargooshads.com/images/upload/files/84666547195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prepearl.com/uploadsfile/4738948997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f07af278b1---gadegumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161497f431639e---78124315403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/33288465852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooe1s4gdlkiqjjk6s4bg6cjke2/75759798468.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_off0000cf70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF70 10836 bytes
SHA-256: c8b60558a15ea29e7d5344b328695e021f712035228c4dd1d7283dd0a1a0fc1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE887 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 3509d9a2d032a8553a202b6bcd935d3ba00ad20af047170dc848efe31099e5cf
font_02_sfnt_off00011657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11657 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1