Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea2873768a4e6f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-25 15:48:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a014c157f1a4037c800e521a1269e420 SHA-1: fd801440a469e62e710101d31568356c73c3b400 SHA-256: cea2873768a4e6f28ff2a443d831b47b34b014aa22d2ecccec491f8f9ccd85c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a common tactic for distributing malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lets+fall+in+love+for+the+night+chords PDF link annotation
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tbp8aoqaa2mmppsd1mdbr6c67/velokezodewipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075b172cf6ea81daddc64322c355c318/65112802055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb83ad2966---63520976427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125fbea6127f---63665241613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4765f9b9f7131cfd02804f3045c7b1f1/gixapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22293133430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/51973103608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa944d2b39b6f8044158c5fb1b04b49d/gokeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/tozopumotimujesagegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/97752383099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocbond.org/userfiles/files/55852934777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/38469984368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf3782eeacc80a772dc7f29e738f8595/10240107655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nm-union.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/zekofasolobekopomubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa0496b8581---87673901808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707bedfa570d1613963b22986dad1ed9/temulolinumozefefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab044f0d02---82725818878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/mimikepobagewerabavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210629021334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e323e1aac---mifidazeginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9eb436cb0---28191901570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b324b6bfa---72614522468.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_off0000d7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFF 16972 bytes
SHA-256: b6fe38d6c096a274582f8a763c0e3b43df0951c40d287585d977fdd48eef1747
font_02_sfnt_off00011c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C52 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 7bcba90ce4be2f6bb78517bc1fe956810eee62ab29bf0bdbeffb3a055896ccc9