Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceedfc3c885d78a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-10 01:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0d500215a3443a7333bf7fdb3657fa11 SHA-1: 649bd2c6e5b131872c046ed45eee50b80fb3464c SHA-256: ceedfc3c885d78a9aa3a7992c612f648514e7f69ed2115b7ba823feb0e59add0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+aqui+empieza+todo+libro+completo+pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zakoregixaname.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7c0906ebe---57767691862.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb41d5b7dd44d96a95d19ca76a10e675/zerowozaloragogike.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b4de4325e---55385792863.pdf
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/xokuj.pdf
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/pudijidopabinoxib.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eef3517e5---37675597933.pdf
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2857081038---37495265723.pdf
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/biluxuwifipi.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah4f6e7bg1fc209l6iu9q2o6je/77877551732.pdf
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60BB097116F30.pdf
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ripejefar.pdf
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/19921202270.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6337bf06d5d40aafe7ef1785e6802853/73638723188.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f83f6ec83---96187380531.pdf
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/gemav.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb018625fc804cd98dc38681cd98b9f8/jezurabososifiwewisefux.pdf
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/wejuk.pdf
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/wepoletifux.pdf
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/gixolulevenikepov.pdf
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1420e90ca4795a469ac9dfc0d77d2e8c/2979687952.pdf
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94990f8b6c66c73ff3091f60974ac47/51445459194.pdf
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/kuwugabubonusimusunomu.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_off0000db06.bin
942d78c6f842a84367ef3a11e07df5c51579560ef24718722f7c9fbcfd3cc4b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB06 19040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123c7.bin
afee229880f6bb8046889ef6cf9471e5e7492ca3657d63d6ba59e2c258f0f60b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C7 10936 bytes