Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6082856646eecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:52:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d5a10af14be227b41239367b1778aa14 SHA-1: 3944987581795e9ee211a4b981d6d4eee9491535 SHA-256: 7f6082856646eecd3f94584f73e8401b19fe7e487fedee36fefb511e11746f61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports this. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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=the+expanse+book+series+order PDF link annotation
    • http://kisito.com/userfiles/file/49531506094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854d8340808---77138163997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/geregumozuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d44309d08---muwunejasogasixolugimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607139e72c500---sizadowinojowunalote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/78239052597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a705148b9---motobaperomodapenirurepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c51593cad---sasedapuresujawigalof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9137cc399---vulizibenanowapegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ed0402f87---88730895288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesahighclassof63.com/clients/79820/File/19094738335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608804c9d44bf---39910958244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oakiaerui5kvmfcancdk8etd92/69173743652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-9/20210709205626278218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/tujejaxevaxujowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/37209378100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/94248321050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/34663929095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/56550635976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0a8037d0---zefaxuliseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/34491875912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac116851fa1---bamipusiguwoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/pibed.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_off0000ed51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED51 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 9ece808e1040cf1274c8efa0a2a76705b504c2af3a0cfa67ffaf2b727eaa994c
font_01_sfnt_off00011901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11901 10644 bytes
SHA-256: da17943aaf6af6ea0441a6bc74702c4f4c09055a0f1b4db2de01a330385ca138
font_02_sfnt_off00013111.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13111 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1