Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cecb974923b7d6f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 03:02:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6cb59e853d20d0a812dca6c47facce4d SHA-1: 94ed7d3523d06ba5cd649fc975e9e3fcbb7fd625 SHA-256: cecb974923b7d6f373cab18262db20f93dfe853f932df2ebe316e7a6f9974546
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to distributing further malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vltmti037bdtfb3fe195kjgu0s/mutuvafa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd36cb134a775568189478a24bb4d267/powenenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5225838364253061706f67987462dcb7/wavijejorududu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newdimension.su/userfiles/file/minezixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/rapuvonokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3f7998904---14595595635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5d497fed---40086750535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844c00c9035---17697516762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/mediwejizifowukelelono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/81316784739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/punuloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/54562533067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c34d65d2f8---pavufegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/mifadusavogabepukupidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1le0cler0cscdpst38ddvl9gf0/xedeguvozusulufevumedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2a1c0047285014f0806256479a60b1/88010737541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecb3c223fc---pezupalufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c56e9e5ded3ee2bfb030865f452cb621/91233870876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/47635554854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keysrotary.com/clients/d/da/da683cbc30bfd632b0b364d14bdd38fd/File/49342478448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f9e93e881---xizamoxitabagebazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35ae1a79ff8958fcb58b9757df4ec6e/83483497651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/sunisewulubifugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctorchina168.com/upload/files/poronifisugetuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+style+manual+bibliographyPDF 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_off0000ea6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6D 17020 bytes
SHA-256: 06501e1109a835ae3ba7b25acb61032d2ca29232b2b73aacd0d6797ec63e458f
font_01_sfnt_off000116df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DF 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 00ca1acd455f1bb9a9825b7fca0cadcbad4307bba13e8e5972f41ba3e1e97dfb
font_02_sfnt_off000130c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1