Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cee8922d363bf032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 620c724cf79192e5c95c634efe711e43 SHA-1: cb3d1c5e95f807df7c7cc4401af411d3761f444e SHA-256: cee8922d363bf0322ddbe25572bf031a46d4231ad10362496889c37fc79c3b27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to domains identified as disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the link farm nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/xifop.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/zexaseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazalanemojemitibuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8481469215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84949788240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikingpaint.com/user_file/file/selulasejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/54172206088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/58074320896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1cbc286f5---9842256982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58795249028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/toruzolitutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43090084a208f92816cce0baeb03465a/kefuminazezetojisok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/bugonejojumazapunizuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://surupaceanu.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52783498542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhospital.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tutowulopibevowifodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/vusare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esterkins.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41600864756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/76828436413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/rabigejusewogisasabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kyousei-fukushi.or.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dipumuzuxagigaruzuriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/talagigadexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210908_044605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lelogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/55173170413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/8639631436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/zaboxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c73fa2b8ab9431611180fe9c4455e90/vutiserujejawusegemogurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/bomexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=physics+practical+guidePDF 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_off0000f7b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B1 19124 bytes
SHA-256: ae0534d06713853103c178394efe72b036de21bbf58a8d47acdbbf482d7f7df8
font_01_sfnt_off000129de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DE 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 53f944c88d348b1c1c9230584683423eef8824233537229c43868f1336e52370
font_02_sfnt_off000142af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1