Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea5e5dc71927df0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:08:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 4d45bb37d4e3dd44d8b82b3e373a5331 SHA-1: 7fd798098618f5508600ab66215f0b030c36a2a5 SHA-256: cea5e5dc71927df0f13ea685532dfd31cd09b63c8cdb82e873518f386dd262ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories suggests an attempt to leverage these sites for hosting or distributing further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://opuspointpartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41495604937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/bigabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/25171917970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa9ca2d3c3---felobitowuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/17478465696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orikon.net/Images_upload/files/korowasobipofetivewuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kubomowusapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094737ad3ad0---gejeduxuwaziror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b131ef2714---xuwaperusixusala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbb04177e82---merinafon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-vallot.com/upload/files/28171692976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608719a3736db---3254877827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5a672bbbe502eef03bf87565bb9fa82/bawonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/71353852313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krr-nfe.com/suratnfe/UserFiles/File/75621646875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c995f1a08e0---funexekisuvelazimatiwalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/gewijuxiwijegufapaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/79943571053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789c0626fe3---43610010354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8v373l8vouie4nm85jr115ft7/xunuratuwozugibonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/52451741803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac2f5962893513096b95bed7ddbada3c/18308826613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/larese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/kosaxuzomevimanadilezoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0b109f5f3---63994049275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f800873581---vudedowizokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=combine+word+and+pdf+documents+onlinePDF 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_off0000d9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F1 17512 bytes
SHA-256: bf79a68187e998e403df0eb0432da140db443270694704e189598f18af53bec8
font_01_sfnt_off000106fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F11 11140 bytes
SHA-256: c53834c917975dceaf2349f13ee7d7089e783885cf3e661a2cfbd20f994b3813

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