Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9b0584c1ecbc2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 89310aeb40867bcbe212657322fd68bb SHA-1: 764c965f67a6da6688fa9a1b71a211f845c525b8 SHA-256: ce9b0584c1ecbc2f90e6ad482687cfc4e45539264d40efef12eb82f2bbfcd9c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded links point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://nhhs78.org/clients/63854/File/13049997197.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/petov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc87a0691a---15544515640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/91024941046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/tojula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f8974fc6235c2fdc3715cb3e79656d/24999397950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf585af1cc0---90966935287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d87b3d2af8eae351d728067ef22165b6/lewawafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/85405993012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210825_AE21576A22DE7B20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/1776600139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb1ce292e7---9916851471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lenosada.sk/editor_uploads/files/44123821030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps-chiptuning.hu/userfiles/files/9337390718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/23944157357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/wesuguwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902205dc2cd---wisomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcos-eff.it/userfiles/files/xinesasura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/66835569936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydtmuhendislik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufibepasibuxoguderejori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2dbb3534b1---79447006594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/baxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/80155174482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=value+and+place+value+worksheets+grade+4PDF 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_off0000c4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4C4 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 15e9be417d6ccc8b4bd1424b6198d25a85fd232c3ed202467855a39dd6453e17
font_01_sfnt_off0000de7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7D 17396 bytes
SHA-256: a781c01b14aeecd677f02fdb7becfcf105f32bcba1a9ec314d76c53cb62b377d
font_02_sfnt_off00010b74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1