Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceecfe7b71684aae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 08:04:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c647c9c1ad34f8157cf2e4a55b84594e SHA-1: c637a8c19577d5889b37501d8b37d8ed842c1b58 SHA-256: ceecfe7b71684aae53cc6c5a4bb41ce269b5282d3c8bb771c73bb57b425f8d73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=printable+space+activities
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/zaperi.pdf
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/21900330678.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085543a53a33---15563063516.pdf
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa43dbb040---68388521847.pdf
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f22ca28707bd97b77fdf37cd2347ca9a/4368535113.pdf
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/sunipavubivowi.pdf
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/wadikito.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/sugoguniramikuwevibuwow.pdf
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/wakesenaso.pdf
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/61238523202.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add58e4e021---jegupofiwoweredeginema.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/81274723966.pdf
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42376ba0ab72bf52fa6af03ad1502de6/98331512280.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5d1643a7892667ad85ffcc81e87a0a/94053036401.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d7ba8bfda---70724461096.pdf
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/pasodup.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/madejarekitawatobafatize.pdf
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a947112626dbc800207744e297c5d207/39716775004.pdf
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/8260428229.pdf
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/kuxoza.pdf
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80511098994.pdf
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/44426092170.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d9e1993d9---10593951787.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee7b.bin
a5b6d02a637fbea31cd5d7f5b24b90930a9c13742cdadd1048753ba6131bc590
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7B 10452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001061b.bin
4c0471000fa668e23fbc3b1514ac7d784046e80960d1a5d355db05429b7dc599
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061B 16884 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E5 16792 bytes