Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c81e4abf328fc14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:07:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 533df99496a63f8a5c5f3470fd824289 SHA-1: 03cc541a16e7123e60464c79d265b14252287ec4 SHA-256: 2c81e4abf328fc14685b916287f55bfdb0ee9a302a870b3f4b7f80c936a5195c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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=ppst+domain+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43138225972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071afeea345d---56250735031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608687233ddfb---lotivijira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75da9ab53d---15080143218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/97547403139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c14f88e70---60753164355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81347160820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29eddb70e60cddd6d3869554487c252/57325955314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5svd789prqibjp8pj1ekb912dm/81874440603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d715e1e22e4---46453426947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac07bc8c06ab5f45830800f06e0a980/nupogukesebotisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b1c51a79a---63265655020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b692873c410b2ac4786f9956dedbcc/96523567133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/nurozorasuximomezatasoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/82122773933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8996243e2---75413326986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg1drk7ahkpoctkdo6opdrpiqj/98426251542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff2fe3dfe7---30192352554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/51927410477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1f53cea925409dcef36822ec32e00a8/vevufetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c068d0c3b---jujazilotujelevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1m8o74b856aduq9ou1qdp5148d/pidoxegifowabegaxamerege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcot.by/pics/files/tiwirudejezomerutimumunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/pebib.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_off0000fed0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED0 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 8b7a1275631c1fb54d71916e35344642266843a5fef21e6105ef8e59d51c4f1a
font_01_sfnt_off00011679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11679 17260 bytes
SHA-256: ce9a6fcacf334ed8129b59766ba48e9e822dab6ce38d50d10933ff27b49eb361
font_02_sfnt_off00014353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14353 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1