Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f2ad860ba68556b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 19:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e70752ec93b61f74d24f5df407bbb4ab SHA-1: 58e2665860360cf44d34b56c1b7b7df26dc1219a SHA-256: 9f2ad860ba68556be65d3ae1d9d4c43578159ab3bae4b416f64d34725b94419d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The presence of these links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=number+the+stars+discussion+questions+by+chapter PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--l3cbpp3gh4a5g5c.com/userfiles/files/41412589057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e90b89ea81---77207132657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c30ed665ab8d3a7b7eb72074903c977/6151987439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdc5e185d8---fegisageju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe2aaa23a2---gosafamomamugevasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6287981241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b1f5c4f8d---wunamilutoxivimerezutazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/90594888496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84edd93b1d---77037144362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34adc836b2---tekizigekidizatenevamutu.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ff2c7fe19---92147876056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/vuzudamogezepiwezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/sivedeketadivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b89b0c68e6c46ae1a018f6a44ebeba7f/ropeniwibonula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbb5f5fda2bb61a93d3a7306c49dcb7/57038280542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_C1079C5D34ACF12B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/sivojiwopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/kubozitigatolufokezuja.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_off0000e480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE480 16384 bytes
SHA-256: e1d013ba073f516a4acd5a8d7fcbb4a27cbb395799c898c8ef11e728876bdfe6
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC6 11212 bytes
SHA-256: ced9a6b6e099eb9d9e294b0a1180a894ce21917f4886adf8197ca165f7311a54
font_02_sfnt_off00012876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12876 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1