Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 284571655e8f068a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-01 01:33:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9ae43613afd3cc487f7c3ccd4fd50f33 SHA-1: 18d6320f897b1e17eb83a7e7065d1ee7c384e0ce SHA-256: 284571655e8f068ae6118e6083f941bed3ab0f2e968db7d4a780ad096321136e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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=my+talking+angela+hack+apk+home PDF link annotation
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd21cc9040---65034491795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/loxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a055727f1c29cde56ceae6b8de6f2762/liwitovodatemaboxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30803837218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021072521455573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i16oa191elqjmfar62583hjad3/bolobolorolakegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/22044759990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d031ad69a3---35981478658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ra3mje2ipec00u7oj7ailk7kp6/xebodenukegobagudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/12734259324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2197bb6fa36efa63f86173720370402/93790235547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/jujasepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/danamufulitujilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68fd03a4b5---fabuduxebewuruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0103683610---39095517642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/89383402324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eec7b18e3e1e22b78b34a77ca0e8f23/palazuwavofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb655f4fd9a---77229412731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09b881c0fa---wojumojipelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f246c7d98f70147b83e9e52cc23cc37c/98970460347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polkovnik.su/upload/file/fikakabujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinasouth.com/clients/11073/File/23274420372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/jubovofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac94dada11890c0e39409c7cca91c718/54039268615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3a16d7851dfd0103a26460218145d92/bataro.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_off0000f2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DB 10752 bytes
SHA-256: f2271693d544f131b63c8cce481ed185fd3cddf1f0852f2c67b38d5c2867d14c
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5B 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 45171f6ae442ae9ef9944df74be03192ebbbb8b970a09e4aa794704633131397
font_02_sfnt_off000138ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1