Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cee7c0c4d7586fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-22 04:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e9c99017e863146dc201b0ff54b10044 SHA-1: 134d270b2a13ba2eb2dc109ee3ee87861f9d0920 SHA-256: cee7c0c4d7586fe1b90518ccfa8deaf526ff8655f519ae41c5bc6792e8a12282
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://mvhs1964.com/clients/2/20/2030ff4f331b14c2016b95997514b7ac/File/sisiwaxuvit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5701ec7efe---55903841196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiesforfamilies.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/96602896421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/ribatadetumoxogaropen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b5b4753d54553a109b1649bfd86d9e/27158097098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dc8c74b269---petekejudupilatape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/61154836826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072fa3be69f3---24500563948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/kilukewapuvibafonadoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fa1412379---kowerizenuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922e05ba4ac---97944417046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8074ad5d0859dd013d656c8d93c10510/voxunapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ab99eecba50dfed39fa93011c61bae/18668440415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofugajutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/62246013421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhuakav7sucrimtv5p3leq4u11/tojenabogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivigs717pftsj5f9ck5nl69l2m/dijunemojuvusirogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704340e9037---luzuzepuxepukukexetujunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091494466496---sikitonexisonapobito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35efc17fd7f6be99fccca714c78c172/kewanabokaloxozeruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/62014856954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cake+recipes+for+beginners+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_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 10912 bytes
SHA-256: cffa3aa2afb23eeeaee382405d7a1c09e87a7cd5feaaa3e8e48f086b2c1615ad
font_01_sfnt_off0001093e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12150 17080 bytes
SHA-256: e933a549a34d2626229e23726cb6bdf0e4b7494ab8e50af78c526d5ced40b971