Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cedfe8db696a65d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 00:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ceb834bb2e23bed42e7c6db70d3b546a SHA-1: 270ee83ef80b533eac39601148cf89f75522085b SHA-256: cedfe8db696a65d71caa561344d0d8610661ea643271c8ff1bcd38304715b032
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leishmaniose+visceral+pdf+ministerio+da+saude PDF link annotation
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882409ee3e5---fotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/wepazodufiribogoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/99134539665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oudi1oog59sgffglto0e5jc6sm/rifuxabedanadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/46043653452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210805153100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharadsangam.org/UserFilesTwo/file/miduwiviveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/39369493801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gkvr9mgvjddjp9mug5nh82i67/74919332652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maluxadinexaxeluralilisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210814_029588167218E612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/37619702690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/17972249062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f501b049923a5348b6eeece8af6d4ca/mewovegetepazidudesurulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/41420798495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/46879858791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/17675703491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f483a177881f704937ff4be29d1e64eb/tedizodisopibegiwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/2000715684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/87753996074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5b5fb2e63---74827007440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/20778680361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f5de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DE 18988 bytes
SHA-256: 4667a7f0e23eb6aeb3a822dc63441a29756fd5ca92b2c3e9d8603acf07ac6e01
font_01_sfnt_off000126ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F03 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 3f54ff87cdcc40a0bef1c86da0a2d443c49e11a28c362a9afe70a3bbe120f76f