Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce9e3741781d6f31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:49:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dd8a9d8f3ad1c68defa7b7f9602f473c SHA-1: 4cc3c99fa43a8f1c9131e5b9ac8bf11a21d7258a SHA-256: ce9e3741781d6f3196bddb7a72caa3394149720c0ae6a30f3030f8fcef4846b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the overall structure point towards an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to potentially harmful content, aligning with phishing or SEO-based malicious campaigns.

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://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d1b00c9f849dd53635075fb69d80df/burovumuzadoluz.pdf
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/58193314236.pdf
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/ridabigopugipoxalosozuw.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/sokujiwowolasamupumede.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nks107seloasrvq1p5lm7r9cd0/33757582407.pdf
    • http://bwc.lt/i/81297113641.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a5d03bea5---zekinamoxixojigogusop.pdf
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/xebonamo.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97efd048c4---29498591355.pdf
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/90507097499.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/143025d12b09a5ab9ff139d4a22437c7/mivaj.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad70bfae8a6---razumaf.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720a667834d---25641836099.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb7db8baec---bupul.pdf
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/62453420478.pdf
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/33374040013.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55861f76f381849e4fb96469d3c7ed8a/44947584719.pdf
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/palapubupofijeledelo.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b081aadaf4d7cb9442c8bba7004ef2/76820998620.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68fc551381---matojaralo.pdf
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/32815127712.pdf
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608069e7aaae2---5775306364.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=renewable+energy+research+paper+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec7.bin
ca8975c00c557a92d785b79d6fc6f35856dfa4d6dd8b532e51d9004e2ff22caf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC7 10976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107d8.bin
04f6d807e722f9a83128425cc2d4e5236422a3f72689054f951ff79d7effc604
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D8 16812 bytes