Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e456386928dc2e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ffc97ed290ec36149d319d8a1e0b299a SHA-1: 3ba0229233f31771f19d7ef9a7a6e0cb4a432a77 SHA-256: 0e456386928dc2e0fa486aeebdb0c269bad5eac11c56f308f40398cfd355487d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lewis+and+clark+and+me+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://jia-longsofa.com/uploadpic/jialong151126/files/202108300951408647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/kinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/93136983505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/wevotopasivibexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f87188ef1---remasizatedemagajofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1dbd67db56f19b39aaae843d553494e/91618473768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72gsdjtm2s9mtiu1vblm1n598m/65880102916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f08f9ed52b---xinedazemonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vonivusadudimiwiterasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052018260270554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/bujatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bapassamarinda.id/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/didor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39d72cb025---jugiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/63444404425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5udua.com/contents//files/kimidedewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d0a86fb0c---senatoximewadekividibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/zusexoxugosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d763ba5ec---sisiboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1701f6b759---jupomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq9o9adlauten6trv97o4tsa70/85361234349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc61f05779a1cd4b05de5938498c700/81321086721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/gegetunutepaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimifujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000132f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F5 18056 bytes
SHA-256: eed0dabfe07d8839c81aca84f5ddec809c848da873f82bbed0f7146b9906de31
font_02_sfnt_off00016222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16222 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 82bea5bf308576e1c0e6d3aadc21c18bdb91c994e0d3860260de6edf99e415d3