Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf0727c0eca6562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 20:55:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: f0aa87f527d5b2629d0212244f67fe24 SHA-1: cdcba0024273260428532e3846b84e181841b828 SHA-256: 7bf0727c0eca6562a0081010ffbf9479bf4fa931bb9ac1e68d3fde6c17daa028
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=any+video+converter+ultimate+7.0+7+portableappz', are likely used to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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=any+video+converter+ultimate+7.0+7+portableappz PDF link annotation
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19686282006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/zuzuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/fokibilarizedojabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lukili.ch/UserFiles/files/96707460933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h0kqhbfsrul97bmi1hm99h6jq/28505350383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d366d4dc5a6---21025127823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91161776244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p3o91b5vhnabm46rpe5cotngh/zajazita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae644751ed1---gezebuvumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b817d870839---rokaxavelaferajetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/65306129621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ql7h1dvevu1ign521i8mp6dn52/26954992095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62b2f10bdb---vowuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/fixewex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac181a94939---80830842093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1aa8462f8d---mazelatejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6e72889a85a9c336022e1db749f53c/74262765534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/kixomemotamivalulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f022668a5---95523940071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26026814520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210716205537709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/dirakuwesusajegasupoxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6daaa649a5---tikokapaberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a9d31aa57---35578059974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e5c0d8ab4127a19fba60c58b1e8632f/32958381756.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_off0000dffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFE 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8a24e4e3d851d3e936ed73bfbabe6f0b9b73a36651e980fd00f2e1648d6612
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC9 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 40fd82830cc35081e8801b4da15b4998c6b75472cb2b54cc5e023da5dce7fbe7
font_02_sfnt_off000126dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1