Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceaaa2b8e96b651f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 03:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 285a39351c158af951996b101239db14 SHA-1: 1127b8b9d5c0c5b5e761a590dfc7b447df3b5791 SHA-256: ceaaa2b8e96b651f8cbf9e9dbb8906b9288cf3243fe0fcf3b9da34c59e43f41d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c71c2e5020---latepimipozugunesumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9539943481b48044baae70e0d666da/lotoditelogiluditoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/58212105981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/vumuzumigokuvirizumunumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c442b2ae285---lokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/16271986897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/jerulidebepedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8e93353f13e64f6736e6b455cc30027/88666692516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/19518117688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/72020910571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1529200ff5---46787337980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.com/userfiles/file/93283729680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/18760329738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/85293464072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/56186348181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/28106094861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a02139f6e3ae761041d222039c0bf45/24810083542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golajadovekomonodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bfb68377019176e17bda128abb2f597/fubusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/tifebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/janiliguvudimaxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/vijewukunufosojatula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1f2d08b9f---74308785187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5slppgfl44grplhobehqe7mhki/38604843375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46a6c13912340ca1dbed3638c5fe8ef/42926482400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/lonanavagubemonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=sentence+fragments+worksheet+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000c8a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B9 15392 bytes
SHA-256: 2fee10d79362304bda9cd1ae1c5190d323b82bf29d04cedab180680442bced31
font_02_sfnt_off00010869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10869 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 7f558376a3e8796870b9189821c7a66c35d095bc83f398de1b3b918074bae4e1