Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ced4f895f48607bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 43e415e09958e1b4e0c31bcad0955449 SHA-1: 7b38f8078437cc839ef92f48678457feb5d4982f SHA-256: ced4f895f48607bb8f230b9e5be8648bf39209d31f0e69a75d3c228e94c3323d
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam and callback phishing, as indicated by heuristics related to lottery/parcel lures and requests for recovery secrets or phone calls. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 9

  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7l5qp43cfqc93p444frm7e4j7/wuxojoguxaxetidukole.pdf
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b83e56c6a---62005352115.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka9941vetf90umrnjih0k56uso/50284466114.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ec43f2a24---nilujisebarolipikipi.pdf
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210527235957.pdf
    • https://pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bonubotunaredozadatuka.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99368099f9---vibekirosokivujifuzezop.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8854153565---penezererutajowabatilupul.pdf
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2217f00e937aebddf14788fcee776344/siporedubabogimapodupa.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2190197eff210fc3c79502772891cfbc/bilidugerudotalexijulav.pdf
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/ripogisaniradinuno.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad7dd6d8482c7eb6a8e3a8b990de429/29790865821.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c658710f4c---jemabenuxexoka.pdf
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966ed5977ee---zenuv.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e65d0d094---98542968777.pdf
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3582a2b2f5718e60429116c16a00323/1959848819.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=computer+security+principles+and+practice+3rd+edition+solutions
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011ce1.bin
c293e418efef2189fa079610986c48170c3f4178a5e9ffd67103d0f24b9a69f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE1 19012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014f99.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F99 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000167b0.bin
84e4c938a2f6e5fa8ee67e4e4b4c914375fb7f14a39017c4b0b64a1c89afe1d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167B0 11092 bytes