Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ced2fb22b60ff723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:35:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e62f406febe965c792f2fe1d96bb694d SHA-1: 09805d89cc3515dfbd5df4ce68df8504ac962555 SHA-256: ced2fb22b60ff723d397d8631b4f314951582642f1e322a9318853ff22622109
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, hosting numerous links on compromised WordPress sites, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867b55e539e---rezudufosiliw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9df7e5ed6---13023262524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/bobolunilozigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54088760087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/togexowaxenuloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d28837d415663505d82245e6d4be935/67710332030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee4a3a2f5a5---gedodixasonixewagizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uc0lp9dkcf2kab00agg8bbbjb2/dozubimotoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/87325279218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/levepegukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/leredezokalexawatukimula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98b330a345---13248016565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/rebonoxojisefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nexoguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/gigugijimonimiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210604232557_9m0e8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ljsac1hiacaotin13fm3q8ip0/51855687942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/ridibodofamosabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oou4om9t5memveul322b216c8d/pidulosivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0815266a16830ed6d48868c7f98616e/vozalegik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9c2804b17---kogesezeledetenawilepane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210706051430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aefbc4964af51dc07f0f1970ad68f93/jerulelatijelaxajetiripa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i4scm142a4ijii9r69fk4ct05/gagosodowijinigajawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7239197da---bawijesuwosopijare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fv+discount+rate+calculatorPDF 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_off0001034d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1034D 17404 bytes
SHA-256: bf6249ee9a8f7c3eaf6758d3b1dad587bdbb77eaf525acebacfe88aa4ebca0df
font_01_sfnt_off00013081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13081 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14898 10508 bytes
SHA-256: ee5c1006c54bb78547077c481e266f06320030ab05915930c8878cfd21980f4c