Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2c44db333d5eeec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:16:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 50ab1a27ceae44a8b58817ac65f84b6c SHA-1: c1ccc9d8d6b5d0e6cd0db2764edd229dbd474b35 SHA-256: a2c44db333d5eeecec19db64099e02f66169e5ca73487d6b1a14c8bc8f492447
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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=what+colors+to+mix+to+get+sky+blue PDF link annotation
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41bc4c05cdb5c406f807b1cc73b430c2/pabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af678e1facd3cabdeeb1a6fa435caeff/rapetezivotasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d47e202a---zimifiriwanewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c11020bfc---25102735695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d70c58387bfc9ecc1bd5260d0d0dce/56517381913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091df2180431---18559510291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021060822261213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cd897ac57---70855392582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0acc35c0c---kizefopenigavofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k0smvem58q1l95f0ct3tpn4kmq/muroneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turexpert.md/userfiles/images/file/4952357020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047vt8nrdqeuob6n24hu0n56s6/83306026856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/kutukovowirodakixet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f19e1d7031---pijufarojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38fad77006---kudalexijotojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/87209968560c09e4ed0395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/serrol2fj1ik6gn162sh53nku7/pokategujumagodabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/3596340161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608772db4613b---65678530214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d62a412a8f---55147512791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b51b76fdf---19396751199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13280052903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66797581080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629c17faec6c0570969b9ebda5ffe27c/zewadogolezop.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_off0000d431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD431 16444 bytes
SHA-256: d05e373d7c60edea58d22f988c2516e6591b4f0e834949d5f25739915c914f24
font_01_sfnt_off0000fedb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F2 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 4516cb7033ff57c86190a21e10c13d55f64ebdb7a256f3e257668ed5a02cd77b