Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fdc7d5e82cc558b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 15:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cdf3bd63dbe88248e2b2539843040fa6 SHA-1: 3d481fa3d7dab69197afef6ed2a3bff952fdcfcd SHA-256: 2fdc7d5e82cc558b3186e255010a630a2b8e342f1602280e0f30bdaabf4a0a6a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=reading+passages+with+multiple+choice+questions+for+6th+grade PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1be4405af---84887590451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161026acc26cc7---nasajutedolizenorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/bazevoponepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/64356925209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/forumetekupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/ramobesazafazugizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/52429973283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4d8n7q529s0kb2krf4hcohf39/9270939421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/72416413508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wararuzajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/39352108100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69d89d2fec---gebison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesulove.com/clients/7/7f/7fa6d7836ea929643a3c23f4562b158d/File/83871854969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fructusartis.com/i/File/nefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/civ9h5h4djlanflqrkvelm86ts/50915253763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkub0brfmrgmg4jgvucgmdsm7k/jinisunofeworen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/30598260310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7m3lo9m6bdaqggicoeffa2a27/41280137731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943cf2c750e---70113800576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27825034008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotteppta.com/beta/assets/file/52147124386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/dugixopogiwaxanutimulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791471a78f9251a029ff467df0242b08/99551164828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/60861656024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/55224801887.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_off0000e79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE79A 11612 bytes
SHA-256: a5bf9433ff5d497140065ab9b0023085fa7d309700f6be55c66e1b538e16007e
font_01_sfnt_off00010280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10280 17684 bytes
SHA-256: f976e9ed041f4e7b71b6e74d01663bfb91767c76540082a2eccd11abf0b0c886
font_02_sfnt_off00013094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13094 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1