Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 630cea8948bc1f13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: d39fde6684bc35e44241ec05eb8aac1c SHA-1: 472d7b88d9440e4c843bee0125f1a5adefddc5d1 SHA-256: 630cea8948bc1f1305fa11e37a1ed3907fce26ad07178b3a3494286198e98510
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external URIs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=remove+ads+from+any+app PDF link annotation
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/24305017065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/86529022742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210902165802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/77819574406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/rilomivoromokisimonenezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawuwosufefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natalieshuff.com/uploads/file/92536516193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruitssupplier.com/app/webroot/img/files/gefusubakukawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7929e25818d1d156cc6c95c3aa3b64b2/3707395110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rururifuwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbvshungviet.com/upload/files/67229761556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ca20243e87---69400768208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161526a599c45b---saripinofubowonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/63562056418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/vugukobazilurinelatopodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerama.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18343298521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sushmitamukherjee.com/fckimages/file/zugigajobusajepakatuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/samenowelowoguwokenafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ixiu-23.com/uploads/files/202109171256419508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210922191718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesadiragozudoresi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210926230551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2k4m04et01vk5mut1oclvphr/47208821638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/kirosexemawadolewuketop.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_off0000af2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF2D 15144 bytes
SHA-256: e7a378f98f1f6c71aa1fb115dafa6022f8cc17af0bebcf8a8d1fc8e2e7cc87fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d56b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED82 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 9d284e5c56e82a205248cdb557260bd6aef2fc849b38a698e3e135a0cab92242