Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceabf26ffa0be399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-27 14:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e49b1b9947e623b6467961be7f9f0269 SHA-1: b019ee89e9cdd12a3f873174937e96cefbd5895b SHA-256: ceabf26ffa0be3993d08ca5b34bab2d7a01e784c1298ad9b535c5f22bcb9a404
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad redirection strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/zuzobifexag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tercovci.cz/files/file/85234570952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpasol.e-giant.net/upload/files/73391148525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moiatakashta.com/userfiles/file/18332689701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/82504521603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/45689795380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/xupuzita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/tixarumara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1223bef6b576f513ce08c2b4bfe5938/jogajazupezarok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/36435136801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/37849277761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyilin.org/uploads/file/zijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/kanufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32558465036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/5995673857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/5587225408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/miwofovuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienhoabacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/rupusunutepolasigulajoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dajudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/suluxoligidukilarekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66585846724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/283c11a9ad92de99209f166785ad8f23/bilufanitaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/46210255052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profiklub.sanswiss.cz/files/file/53773121566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21b32a55721eb4924323d7bff7ed12b0/82550582954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=super+mario+theme+sheetPDF 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_off0000b33e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB33E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB50 16088 bytes
SHA-256: ced10571a611feb6896794500b429dd1e55dbb235c9e45f527dca1e5a9438500
font_02_sfnt_off0000f456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF456 10544 bytes
SHA-256: e0cba763c33caa161f7fcb7daad4e26d03723e3006e96e0d0622cd2a2c89285e