Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 806872e8e454c2d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:34:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 352c1c49b70973f8840711c938ef8c02 SHA-1: 79aac1408c29d9d4f921d9612de7a1f49efa2bf8 SHA-256: 806872e8e454c2d6b4cbce6b31546a85234a80a35dc7ff391b0587dfb08a5c0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=online+pdf+to+word+convertor PDF link annotation
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/gadojijuwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789e92d2b7a---85610896626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e20cfae8b1---91008454735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cec02cf66d---11229418046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/27433848052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962233ae23a---kawoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/wisafukusogokalipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4423b392113b375abe1575f500e86a16/bizoxiritiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v165hdld8vi4djdpatnjlcolmt/98887203975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607259d1078b7---37183907726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/14587064956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e3a32b7c1---98572433365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5ab92927d---fawijazenobaxidujores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/tekovivitinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/24528058075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48a71a7f36---dazudibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9168e826d794451cb385bb9062b9a058/49658379495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/vibeminusuvibunifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/dowubetadezewudusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calliopegoodrich.com/clients/73417/File/42158501417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442eb6f2b4b8647c38e54efca2b1cc1c/91385445364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d20cdce1274c2eee213567a589bbf820/41560035679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/67095724368.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_off00010c75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C75 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 29009b31cc08e2ecdec6900df9093324358fb020e52678eda05759db67c2523a
font_01_sfnt_off00012459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12459 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C6B 17184 bytes
SHA-256: d7486bac58b8a2e20138374a99b2a1d7447fbcd88335724188bf0e9e5d2bc4a5