Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cebe938cc687db2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b187c264e167eeb940204cf4e48874a0 SHA-1: 2fad127ef0c322de7e3a8df67a415d393502e01b SHA-256: cebe938cc687db2ffb2c6a886ca58c1af84bf0f904022b0ad6a5eedba588d5c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious content, potentially leveraging JavaScript for obfuscation or further exploitation.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=low+resource+browser PDF link annotation
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608459a2bee3b---dedesogabevurasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854cc670d6b---75904129479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/12779939736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/42176739884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d42faad9b---datesotiwutiwukubilewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8en5lfrqmkb0tr3472h7rg210d/wifonagoxosexuzoraxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/86295539838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/29756455679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf573104461a12ac8da97c6a9d7df147/tamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/sutajife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjmnv4l6m71cjsfvmjdns1jca5/95157662639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0989ba8a63c3b6b20606b546b3d83fea/69112640175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079798e72d00---lovosoneki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286e79307d4c9a8b15898c9ae56dbd7d/tunokipowukikaroxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4c1188b1f67ea8498778e753e2d9777/88100851192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/97978455359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/vepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ced4fd5f5f---31832917498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e2627547c---21347850840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/lapajebozokitegefugerutid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lawuvemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/mapadawolenurulofuvikuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9c2dbdd683---geperipajagewejatisotezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088577fb0f8b---lixiwagizabageto.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_off0000efc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC8 10004 bytes
SHA-256: 8a912fa58cc98391315dc47ab0c50d2bbde8097fd58cfe9e265da719825fa7f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10638 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4A 19136 bytes
SHA-256: c012fcb1177d04371982f071039a90db6eac7cc557adf6f28ce1eae882b282e3