Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cedb27096cb09691…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 359975fd939e28acac88f5cab2276c5b SHA-1: b17756a2b0fb81d6241094638e62b05fcac809bf SHA-256: cedb27096cb0969103877c34d9e1b71e626e71f373be0e0d9adcca59f2a561c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of multiple URLs, many hosted on potentially compromised sites, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d44833fa98---98493131003.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/nunanenedotunoguvorep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d42d799f0---85983581323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fongyoskert.hu/userfiles/files/28066908295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b5d1a3c94---79298634543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu4an763pq10ged63ijmu5cvde/vosemesejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opq34m71p97mrj6hkc45atmt57/33268872089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/16271986897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6364d6bbc---65114836023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608baf86b29c3---51621243417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/96863919917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608986aa85bb0---mifafuvasokokawukuroned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5dde195a1aa5d4fb09c15b0deb003df/biwiwavetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8db408581---jozujinuvaxetukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/25726341925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737f3417bd1---fudaguxisonoxatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/35252026448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64162387472289e29fc94b7384fff0d7/73461912993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771546c59d0---jejabujopekikabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a8cf42123---jaxopikogexekavuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f6f6ccee1a2e70f08709abf739cf63/tawekatakede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/kuwebibekiwamosexeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fee6021982---52691957728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/38031569666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tribes+nomads+and+settled+communities+class+7+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_off0000f952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF952 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11169 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd6510d1bf19e40322709c4c1f5bf236fb1a762b4093819b8ac6c8a016bdaa1
font_02_sfnt_off00012adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ADF 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3260ebf1e2712dce6538380fc9bc960b1739e6e63953df2a3e40cd8149056d