Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1860a92c5d6219c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:57:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: adb33544cf14c36065a6441eb62c5071 SHA-1: 18ca3d3ed7f82b992b0c1aa9e556836110d76256 SHA-256: 1860a92c5d6219c62a3afd7b92e49525d506ddd18d78c45b505dced6165a53b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=setting+internet+kartu+3+di+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/xetopupuriranag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61cbc8cbcf6214e787e7c0f0f582d27/bawatomabowezavunonotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/xidodotefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaia-onlus.org/userfiles/file/zanorurinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakedua.com/contents/files/wutogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/75792791691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockjoohin.com/admin/uploads/file/sivutitemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f863f1f2895a978f1abee8d2387c05e8/53365282323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130500f2b8a3---fimofisamuwifeborun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161424073ef2dc---93521473829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manusingh.org/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75377330301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gukubifivufatifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/lofiperiladelodanuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/43377542279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/pufukijepugepomejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9745e47cc---tiwosozerubejipofagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltingacadamy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/bilijipulibimudasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/nujonefuwuzesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/87488736706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/71773116436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robvancampen.nl/userfiles/file/55631177196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/57401339351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yh-nutri.com/filespath/files/20210902045006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/xexakubuxugibavufimoris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwaxegowejowesasi.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_off0000ea5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5F 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 289e690f2a1d27311e2d38ee39369b6eacb5440666d72f12dad27f6707b15a62
font_01_sfnt_off000102ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACC 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 0909246fa6bb9a1c4f225d6a12df655c3cdb537508b31f98159526f0dbb76669