Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea2e9874080aab1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:24:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: fcfb4e8abd32c4aed6999fe98b13c7ef SHA-1: 9833d3681df60340a60417dd025909c534d9167d SHA-256: cea2e9874080aab112e793da7881ced157185a59338d265ba70f7eb0d73da0cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3231e41cdc---lidatenatizenuvisewiwos.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf27fcb8df7---24452386450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsjamesirvine.com/clients/82887/File/87721890856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfsroanoke.com/home/tfs/public_html/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/talesopizenejovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4ae0d43e3---54077735615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/jezosomumunojizugazivavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/45170848916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c409f81a3a---sizakajixatadigolimedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/nabazoganunoveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bupizavowokuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaonhaphatphap.com/images/uploads/files/62381493506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/wogenibarufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4842b99dc418eca3206b5ae30276e6e/kobomutexojoxuvenulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/vukumitalidarunanefipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/govixozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsouc3l7p15lkq8otqh9n74i1i/tibasige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021071310521714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f94480328dea2b6a274aea33f5502230/tupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/13472726388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05494e3b6cc584ab0b233caf46976cb8/46766077408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bf886b4d2---sajekisijigozelemekadarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/18361623138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwudevabivelujagawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/siluwonixiwojojopirovugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5eaa1f325---baruxogelub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89488fce3642337d94d603e74e51a63e/kunudonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mentally+ill+meaningPDF 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_off0000e989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE989 10172 bytes
SHA-256: f93c1c7dd8f1fbfaa27d4a5a07f8a34d86e42df65d19112ce519c4d60b162b13
font_01_sfnt_off00010044.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10044 17840 bytes
SHA-256: 038a1a389839377fc3185e070fa3c983adc46522da94b2782f27e582575acb64
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1