Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 335ced637af0c8c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 22:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ce8ae165d5a5488e12af12147fbcac79 SHA-1: f7bcf90b894d760f2be483592716194e30d38ece SHA-256: 335ced637af0c8c7e408223442764919ca4523a70ed46f8554f9ec58fc9dc431
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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=game+plan+crossword+clue+8+letters PDF link annotation
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80d32f24d0562129119136208ffe4d4/bokapuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b351f038f55---39698296265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da6409f3da---rerolikoturimuzujazenefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ad47680b6---67364944517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/pewedufiwogusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibnuaffan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98263047491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66cdd1da45093ff9f727185b39e4b13b/tonejebifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/46367418716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gasigomubasasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/22747020158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosaicopeoplecorporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depomulejesorazazoxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/madoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russia-ex.com/30937227755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773e481aa07---witulijigoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aydinservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff876db915224436dbce1cab8a776ecd/bumutolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/46945328684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/30455335106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/tifirurakezikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/54556787986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/sorikenik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/senudilafofaxakekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7d5345d38---977374409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1acebfe002be45707565091b28adddc6/39365290473.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_off0000d6e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E1 17812 bytes
SHA-256: e05127cca044ac312b8fcd87dd78bfe2274960780938dbfc86e0a802576c6a87
font_01_sfnt_off00010489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10489 11016 bytes
SHA-256: e6b1373d3f889a1c0f50c3305eb1b60c90bb36560ed03385f370caf234fa1e53
font_02_sfnt_off00011e3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1