Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2865f45f2b1553f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 899b5312829e5e3c59e8bd33a3161063 SHA-1: a2d50002a1d83d8bf2fd9371fa93f1a6f8c162a1 SHA-256: 2865f45f2b1553f17e486c80a6d1349d8b5e868017fdbd3ee3f412e2f83a4c9f
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 farms pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=town+hall+eight+base PDF link annotation
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a359e70d939---67262902747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/gubapofifanunifeloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/duwupokusamixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c006453cab1---60422265548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe33fb38c7---guxekadip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesahighclassof64.com/clients/874441/File/gonakawibofuboziwerojikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip72up0dughhi70dghp97afa07/92751217170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c88a442ec9---sexotafoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n60ka4irpq99li47jpduss96dt/robowojukawoxevidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fijiwijurovufuvetigebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55181450857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04ed11f3fb---86159062971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2780f330ee---pozogesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da1ebea1e4---vutizologapogisaludutato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b9c875229e197437271016bc1bf3ff/41535595750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b98c9ikei7e1u53tec30p008/59891638477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e96ee0263---47905366984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/35581354801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3db134750---jomakazokesakezevalagadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1356d00c6554175102f28586290af4c/85885554869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9989753d99f20ed7e11bb9760fbc23bb/25373333281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45396929412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/51886362633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/40634938456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad66ba043ca2d361d728c8a2487516dd/gepenerujofuximeja.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_off0000e8b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CF 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 9d911b05ac0a6f3fb9712e39bfecef6effb037875d24e45c4f773d64ad685b42
font_02_sfnt_off00011898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11898 17612 bytes
SHA-256: e7ef8e4c0751730164ce65727b025a2652fc3fdcaa97f99c5b1d705f51873af3