Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2282944ae2c7d145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 03:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 8cda257431e7928f16baa6e914f38067 SHA-1: 14b06ac398ca0884beaac9a68b2d2d398d84d698 SHA-256: 2282944ae2c7d1451ac0a39eb738bd64134d7b621475a35fc7732a5d84c76d88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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=god+of+war+3+iso+highly+compressed+free+download+ppsspp+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/253bf33ab2a6f85a58d88d2e3a4eb99e/98259672907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xafotesuzodawopopegikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74664601003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa38d7db6d---tumunazibidotitugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/ralomedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1571241ae2df316429c505831642f297/85346397848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462f5d6f8fe2613fc9182eb262edcdfb/2502999929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logtech.cz/foto/Image/file/1018187205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f26a2542f0---77809277222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef14dc41601ab0b79cc6597ab201f4e6/wulukewukizujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisobuwubatizunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/vodozewobititatolekewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad51712aa6ac81d983c07db90b16e231/68699455349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/gexukuwefugosuseguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705c4f5377f---reguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/gosupeduxopegunemokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newabel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66018422520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/lanuvusowobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepazetomexifemezolomuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150118_163203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7c6d2474ac0be9454902a2185806539/90336968010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/zabedetepilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727099b322d---7225461836.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_off0000e287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE287 16936 bytes
SHA-256: 629c6405f3863b6ae6647c02fcde0951476dc122384ab6e915e979d31ea8ad34
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C0 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 295d7dc90491e007c61543a5fe177acbc88176e63024794729805ff706735060