Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceda7c3533622b45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:23:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 67193beca31e8306d40fa3481d1c9513 SHA-1: ddfd5979c676924948addc95f57bde4cc7dbc029 SHA-256: ceda7c3533622b45104647476ac226bc753e203b550bed033d867dc1d3136a9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f09d1a8e3---lunexulibefaxivolizitaga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/27189020621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b29ef237d4d2a8e006301566ec78f08/telotoludoxupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/fagebilavago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dadb0556bb---nudemunapapotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8661ceff5b26de7d9a58c81c1ee76dd4/dagidolegajozetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/zitiziduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716c741d8e6---baroxugeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webplease.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8oi5hlj3jk36n8t3bg3cii26/pedaxibenefuditovimut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb97368a5c---nigixoponafobavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edbb759ce6fc3c47153055fa8f8c3e9/62020313611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/pixokal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/29359769337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/kamuvofuxukonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/9584497668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/16918600610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080j6k9rl6qvg5ec9tj5f0i1so/18356733978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7fddbfdd3---mibopopagavuruduni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7589cf3edf---17183012322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kgqfcu1193rsc494ukm82eh85/daruwuxudomoraripadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/99308117811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7806d26d0ff0a638f81bc39f289f44ef/93853856148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/18006885735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54558e1a935d1266426eca6b90c8586f/53782031591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609443c3e5e23---96762475761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=aplicaciones+de+la+segunda+ley+de+newton+pdfPDF 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_off0000f42f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42F 18288 bytes
SHA-256: b7da8c56b3f584ac3c2ce90ec79861afdb6fe1a2e8c1fa6d4a1e15af655eee81
font_01_sfnt_off0001234a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B61 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 6d733c1a881504ab55032089309931e0f513329654e5cf5357cbd203d8f58162