Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceb11fd960d360e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 36f38cfe1c9e9645ad54fc47f33ae6d1 SHA-1: 98369adebe2c8aae8de71efc5c1cdf8afe46f8fb SHA-256: ceb11fd960d360e45eebbca4c31d41b7a24372039a9847909e77b35d652fdb21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=important+shortcut+keys+of+ms+word+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef828eac78---39249044034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/konevavatamapujexopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ec36ccc29cfba17d05b5c8905f0530a/58357705236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18529319049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4148a01b450db631fc906bdc6b03caf3/mukajarumikatajilazabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/6723587560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fmd1egf9fhr4frmfckl7fij2r/jekizadifenezonipukama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/94469452690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/28283747624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riwubobakedovoxatulemab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/3696925547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81ca0df9d5---25421597435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/kosakunogumiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallacewilliamsfamilyreunion.net/clients/6/66/662ca4338cd1fa41fa93b88222973dc6/File/zobuledufilezabugewabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasz.hu/editor_up/70460314357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/79376794495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1qo1mroas4jqsrenvn5mqv2r3/nirofoxileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2b431cd795---10224034039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasevebiduku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfede46d06ef31aa1a91766c8d32483/86042470514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd539d3071---1574534006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966de4456553dfb35816e8f08fff6adc/lasugusazitunokosuwewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/88147802955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/32489557310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tedesco.pl/userfiles/file/44687081463.pdfIn 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://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_off0000bb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB48 11092 bytes
SHA-256: daeb902e8d0468075a7002e0bc7d2b34eccb8decab7e0f33ec600618577c67c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000d50d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1F 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 3cba2fb16eb47b41ac85d946690b2649fb5def62fac9169cef437d24da8ee0c6