Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceeef74785d5cffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c10455cc8832bcdf9ddecd8c6bb40a46 SHA-1: fa57a18298475ac7528e3e5e101633f5b4ccce06 SHA-256: ceeef74785d5cffc6b17aa400beb8f8bf0e3f9df55bfdff7f9a93b6e7dad1f55
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm pattern are indicative of a phishing lure designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/teludex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uh6mrkiug4ofj7j8ei14g6c5kr/xixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/86862953191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4f5ac970---96463028653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf1d940798---dedirezasinezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/44288414070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40cc812bd84f8c849bbc69f48faccb07/50404975435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorrstrechy.cz/UserFiles/File/votumipawokenusisawegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ec1b7dc80---36244525205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202107042344146239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/94207219131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cab0f915ab---sefurabikujonuseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7dg7c50nn23fs3jd6u1lupq91/9766838808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/namijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210618094246_jrrvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/zuvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/dukijiwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d3d242e33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b54fe02e7---jivinoxifape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78cecf6e283a6038693b72ad0cc420e4/62749803538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/gufanekimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/zudukapufugodofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/80380930169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/javasedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doublehappyvstheinfinitesadness.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874401a53b7---kepivekizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mapa+de+rutas+chile+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_off0000c7bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BD 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 24f6999b02d6b2ba7722eb2344f1b2d85ae1908842ea7b6f9bf6aa582b46d6a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE004 19168 bytes
SHA-256: 78109d1005efa7515686b1fb62d2bb7346fb105fc57c3cec51a4bb6d46b409a0
font_02_sfnt_off000111cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1