Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873808b1de01b76a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 48d79a0b5632ff063315e91e63ffb7ce SHA-1: eddfa92e827ab72da9758ea896a885a54bdc063f SHA-256: 873808b1de01b76af00124f13d3972d03c198eaa8cfe2bb8d45b7b786224e7ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to direct users to malicious websites for phishing or malware downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

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=pdf+compress+file+size+online PDF link annotation
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715d7078e35---91745483445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portaldeaquidauana.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risuzutapapisanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08547b328b---bifagajutedokiwuputadukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ba8396b2d4e---wobomadogiwutebigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210623191846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/25649478153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schubert-hh.de/image/file/sewuxamegapuvasaxuguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/34805831926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u00ev6vaeajf04jcq7a0fhmtf5/nenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/93353313675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780971e23347a884709c69bae74f5844/kotofizutoposape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdprescription.com/ci/userfiles/files/13171577570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k879l0kj19ij58sgb79ku2ipdi/dujolawutibikel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703dc6cfc8f---foluvulukikowovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsongpharm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7816095979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbbf640f757---28937889358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/59095109244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickzoo.it/file/68657723897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a44f9c789---67466675208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e231a545eecf6fd6292eb863d694a1/18523863651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66058650872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northern-japan.com/image/upload/File/80949815946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be384c3c7ff---11962103074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f5e076dd1---kawerilubabubajidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/65218061252.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_off0000e21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21C 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 8f943e5381dbf3696b4bf14accdfebc10bcad83cf3344b63aa84067f17c9a3d3
font_01_sfnt_off00010edb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDB 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 71a526d0a896543dabe48620d2c19b58483b918522afed887fc0481e8a993f8a
font_02_sfnt_off000126fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1