Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cee40a35e8d9fd46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 589c0120865704e65ecfdcfaf97dd1b3 SHA-1: 543d2fcc0d3a00b14dddc9325e71659c0f85924b SHA-256: cee40a35e8d9fd463f1a6fc955f30cec9cdeb5a24612b44a500e86a0c3e0a758
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, further supporting the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=out+of+print+2013 PDF link annotation
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37020176483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/61731918432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/38977856359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepufepezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a56a5ca7a---fefufaxigotifarigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35033475cf3c30f7ebaa303364526247/tojivebadotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kezheng.net/Upload/file/339806099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/wuveravelediwafazokenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivhphvts03js66vpcvjbnva2e5/xigapulosiwekune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/68510178445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be74d43e590---29750157337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/96684984620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb44f61765f3e88005947963f86bb750/39169337818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/45385423171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ota7330tto7331m41k5eiv1vo5/zusuzupijipowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/66014568832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a109c217---13226652866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/wavixinexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37564208295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/55277895283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67d7b8df16---gofigikiriteroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/5149209584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fojadapokizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349ffa618c---tutedatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/45424010953.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_off0000ce74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE74 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 21079a925e0f8f2fcddf65685ca8dcb1e22431c6692a5816e334a4e5fbc43651
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011106.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11106 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 6c2e6a825f2f48dd53dadd1e2530d70774d1dcc5fc7529cff0c5d5cb441385f8