Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cef076a346d0209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 06:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 982d2dadbf57cf6765c4b1cde9d8a599 SHA-1: 3636f0a76a4bd37aaad2205d5977ba328b4ecd56 SHA-256: 1cef076a346d0209bcba080aeb61dfd31b6f6d4497b80b98d5edd3c14719c749
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or SEO-based malicious distribution strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=what+does+corrugated+metal+look+like PDF link annotation
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/zoganosuwuwabarudapozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/61956771442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galsabino.it/userfiles/files/jutijizunifuliguxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmbc5gckvg8si98j9ht58lb2c3/33119143824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s05qtvtdj7r1rcudrn1sc89e6/52668775573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glenbardwest1965.com/clients/0/00/000b938fadf99fc3242526d4297efebf/File/xokuvorobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/17769058113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/43859657258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44cac68966---ropopemidofevutusegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pb8fbgvmu99fa5r8gdloebgr9/15456608799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42db8ba3344268ae4eec7380d0a6ba2f/lijojujubapisalowafuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/94112408553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58dbf19cc21f6d797a7135caf6a9b0a9/39098149423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c965730faa---namizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/vipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/pojexekijarapubivowewunol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/90982574350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/novilofoziribevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/31347280232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/mesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/58754125488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23828399007.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_off0000dd55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD55 16568 bytes
SHA-256: d52525f073ac58ae4c6bb5f87956884525d7faee1367f34cd5ca61fd376aa9f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10863 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001207a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207A 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 56ec6a5a675b4c63d073186cd44519df544552e702b85bfc41faec55734ed4a1