Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 961ed3a8806c5918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-10 00:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 47afc48100434435f514a2fa26fb6d04 SHA-1: d63cf2806b26343528d151fb33f9081ddbdb343e SHA-256: 961ed3a8806c591863b3500fc16c21830e1787ad79575a14c4882c7755fee27b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and numerous URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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=icse+computer+application+question+paper+2018+solved+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d2b439679c2c90a424bc44951d4363/kijasimizanofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a523e6b0ba4---26976199640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/fewuxizupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/jaxirukeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608869e21ad1b---53893901122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dphmsnr1vf1aikvvs1ogm8q6n1/bedugufororu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7dik39mbdsad6v6s90tda2hq4/47661892537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6227744e865007baac37784bed2bd0/2138407770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/davakalubobinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ng3br1fpmduu3phm6lvt3ol6/64320198248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd928d454d---bitojenufigubirononawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf46e8f5512629012ffa477143528cb/25081766729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34762200d93ac89f7f15e14a3a4d3707/zenulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c781207f---84310285864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8881e4074c---38751583038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7si3jq995i747v9j3kopjkn4se/14460468582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/33943750568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/dezorudevafomagetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpmj4tvskg9aen8n85iuq9h6pf/dewojasaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/mitodibumaxokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/fuxivelesugoxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813bb6c4f75---kawalekugijetapelexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edc5151731---50595151643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7db37b94079b2d304765ff55e4ec0b9/86052717716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d9422e4a0---39343331398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/92340510694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f3eg06uva98q7plev2cjarh9/81758772153.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_off0000d9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B3 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 81c010c4ea6c65f7f655da058dec8b389741e4a23ce61f1d451870c97ffcde95
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EF 17440 bytes
SHA-256: e2a0944f2e1b7ee4526a24a0255026e53d5cc44a01b2c8b566debb2b8ee40536
font_02_sfnt_off000122e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1