Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 243c33e99ef92820…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:42:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f8cdd1036d96b047f584938611597ecf SHA-1: 3c37e89545a7273ce8c054a4ec425af77e34a69f SHA-256: 243c33e99ef928201e7aa48cff85011adda50e709c234df2efc3e4135dbe8ae1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or spam campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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=intermittent+fasting+bulking PDF link annotation
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/tejotunovukobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2f6b66bcb---zigezota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c65253ad881---vofujiderudevofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ura5huvakospp8k9ofsg2k62p3/zodenisidaxejolileneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a632900bd70---82328727579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82900ee66---3240789050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqrdsfu92hktiooq1idrsseajg/36515754795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f722d251e---48929209418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/60885695899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5386e6e39---69058591839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/46001483617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/9117402850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/7240100996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608963c1d06ab---guwafepejijagelomogikugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e85585d0---kegefitepunalago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staples1981.com/clients/b/ba/ba027a536d51c1d997ee76cae6dc9017/File/dalevazatijivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830df52324d---xeladofefuxutomegisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607863d832851---2187269386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e76b10ef29---dasodedepofafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca9ea2edf7581d5096b83a021cabd59a/fojidesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc749785ce75ea40f3be6317369c528/12653453299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49ef1297784b83ec8a7f6c3669f6c0bb/bawuzenejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e66fc17492---26896592351.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_off00013a22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A22 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe30c9e519ca5041a7c078c46862f724ad76c6b81cfaf69fd3e092cac40575b
font_01_sfnt_off00016647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16647 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017e5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E5E 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 5809186cbd79eb669a070037664d0923945c6471a82d154748bec4975f8a46be