Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1221781467fd98a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d17a7803d9df6e3bc05e53820192a008 SHA-1: 889a530a1cf4c10089fa394837ac4fea35509eb4 SHA-256: 1221781467fd98a697450fe086d443bd8db9b73c185cc9c4ec7c13e0d2f7c287
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure suggests it is designed to act as a link farm, likely to lure users into clicking malicious links for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+web+to+pdf+converter PDF link annotation
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f0841b236---tuvimidobagefuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe6e442be404c983e6b821801ce130a/85682767298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60f6c688924b7fe2659833d10ea717a/53381470073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c17dfeef21---mekojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd947d7848---dimaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea785aa28d---gotasuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2348688099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/luzimeziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41455782626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcihlar.cz/userfiles/file/25597488468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d94d9a2172---kovaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/zapukawotarebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd88ef5ba29---86482669230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/28283494990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10eae595710df3c77bce29fba196a2d6/bepuvubefizabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/gubufunikunelirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a44fca784---xogikugeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c3f7b1b5b---pukirivupopavukemejuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/92084138593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaf3a6ed57---71626794172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a858176b7f6c9ddbca0a6fb7c30c509/zuwifikivifonavakisizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00bda763b2ca0a3c8cef70bab9c5899/60043615109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d793de2089614a9468972b6deb0f4f6e/74916486060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0361e7e6a---jolitafe.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_off0000d5b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B1 10660 bytes
SHA-256: b773b9edf0b811a86deb089d9195fff5be04e4b16bbce95b024c0a1fde959526
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE19 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 0498cfa3aa7e13a3931c61e826b3dc6639fee8a7527e80d8bd71c6c71d605552
font_02_sfnt_off00011b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1