Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceef82fb9ae50828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:35:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cc0e4b3198401a35c7af521a975c12ad SHA-1: 39b13331b16d4749cf7bb6e729f5360afa3b7b42 SHA-256: ceef82fb9ae508285be24bb764f74b731647b939b31b26b84324ca88ca255ae9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=math+problems+with+no+solution
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/58725554823.pdf
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/liposorut.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747b56370c9---82349627898.pdf
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739905af851dfa28bd617a4335f66685/begelejuzilijume.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b182a81576c---71295404892.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21af8a44e7---2189828661.pdf
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed913507d0---21705478827.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/78903753374.pdf
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/20303179279.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080752e9ebcb---66828255504.pdf
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160badc42ccb0d---38643386110.pdf
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980e22a51a1---xudotuvamajupewuvo.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f786f7c3b3b22d3dd97ea09f5e0ead/97992486586.pdf
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/28072018338.pdf
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871858ac40b---48691702415.pdf
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/danewuzefa.pdf
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/26071821378.pdf
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47058306836.pdf
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/likumugeb.pdf
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e961f13854ca5c79fe681a54e9c4d10c/10868242643.pdf
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/45473517654.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf6b08831c9---88725802012.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/45036856109.pdf
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/nulowar.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edee28a4c5---pugeduvusu.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_off00010fe9.bin
6adc9cf14dac13cf7699ec8c679f4774755c6606a298dbd5d350250e3c948760
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE9 10836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012896.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12896 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000140a8.bin
2fce197b8810feac554b71b8f3cc3b48c0b6f1f9dd031ac0abf2f18b0e2c2f11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A8 17608 bytes