Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea25ea3f6ea4716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:00:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f402ddf530fbf8ec2e16b65d496a6c4b SHA-1: b9688df6f5818cec1e6f78fb8aaf693fbf0cb898 SHA-256: cea25ea3f6ea4716b4424e65e128ba458161f7463cd4319f03462dab57f530f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous other PDFs hosted on compromised websites. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign where the initial PDF serves as a lure to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec43493487---medumujazerepusugizup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3178322bec93e6753d7289a3f330373/bosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7moa1lajlmm931n9rqj3hhi61/89245364122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/dukuliduvavekedetab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878c8973926---58468174995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.com/contents//files/69657181798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/tubanoboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f255e22737caa6fa5f5c9113a242e8/kipedexepogoxubul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rrglrr4kgak98blaouoebo6d6/94734536029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/34386817637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304ef30f8c6---vizuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladakhtripmaker.com/userfiles/files/gezaluxesurepotiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omg63blek5g4nqqgioa4tvtvmu/sizusukiwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/davupawapoguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ea471abda6e219115e7e45f13053be/76168518599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5922454ee406675852050e9776acb5b/81271429962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ruuvp7hq6qqjovqc5sprpkl4t/92083865591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/vojijidofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e84812aa682e62634faa6bf18329182f/43792861606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a286cbcbd59---30817756382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbdjag8ljn13399v7o0ppgp468/97143588362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f4fa1bd5664a46692cb81b2dde028b/modajekolekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/10676186376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c641d302183---loxojumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=relays+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 851242b152c3a3f32791463dfee98c0319d183ccf3d74d090d0ee9fd882812f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC8 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 9769cad162e97a7cb09855af5c093199d34009fd094f37180012f17d27d08c3a