Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea799d3f2cd4c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-06-19 15:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7abda909e512d6fb85900ff2fda3120f SHA-1: 24c36de49e095b42de73382b1aacf312655c55b3 SHA-256: cea799d3f2cd4c4349a2cca7097f8b332bbd65c5355157e461424da134a4b9dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It employs SEO poisoning tactics by presenting itself as a free download for a popular book, directing users to a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The embedded URLs likely lead to the download of a secondary malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=organic+evolution+by+veer+bala+rastogi+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85649909557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00052d7efc---98900560668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/81009491238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b61c3a6d---bosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuduluvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ac7b4edba---51459287662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608620ffef482---wokasamunogixetat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc1fd05dbb---79345220631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e61d0d7cea---27565270193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428d9d52f7---3815804840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721902a7d0c---roruvekinugafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/tipawepiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liderpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/48657169108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c263b215522---54341826856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000bb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB0D 5744 bytes
SHA-256: 5a042de58b2fde4e785cdeb0292d9c78479422823ab4248389dc90851e4a0310
font_01_sfnt_off0000cec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC1 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 6d41860b784ca2160569b63d1df2064923d2d1e4e1d03448e0d4ab30931df220
font_02_sfnt_off0000f491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF491 16168 bytes
SHA-256: bcfecb9fde4b74e4a2b692e15caf305b2988a1cfe4c6386614002e38d35feb86