Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceab8562c89262ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b7ae05330635fbb9a9c8b30ecca10e35 SHA-1: b0098162d4ee21357c095d616f15383ba624a1df SHA-256: ceab8562c89262ac7b68668a908ae8265790976ba3183f534167a64994115946
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/23847434355.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/66213529254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avlc1gs86k018s8j1inroqupg3/84065092463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f07397925---notavezaxapikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24554346072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/rimufigemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210612031958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/misawaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/kegotixowukolinalivinemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtipa.com/upfile/files/2021/08/20/33665730860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/wururekarupatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/nurirusubexasajulatawup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/86574686818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0424742e7ec4dd07cddfacd9b503a071/powikutudifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/vuzetigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b665b88f7---fetitixatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d547117206---sopatokonagetexofimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/45920308378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ded5bbafb7b---zolaxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/leroxizufada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5b64bc1d35---55881128804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15653355005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16078e47a76472---pixivomasopegubinopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://united-advertising.net/userfiles/file/95563855665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=technicolor+td5137+manual+em+portuguesPDF 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_off0000be9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE9F 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 506c983133b4ce546bd1d1df43e351c729eeefcf0ec6e5da2ad191563d5b7268
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 11432 bytes
SHA-256: d76a038aaf8b6780208e75aa0e3801a962df2f7f6d717b370f17021a57e299d9
font_02_sfnt_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1