Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f38a6317bdbbed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-14 11:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 860b3af8782ddab2bb3441371489ab7f SHA-1: a3fb844b7e570504bde701959331ffc707766ca2 SHA-256: c4f38a6317bdbbed0bc5818f36e9e1e51b1ef0a221a8ca3c9ec6c7dab32818e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a phishing campaign to trick users into downloading malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to delivering a trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and heuristic firings are sufficient to infer a malicious download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=script+executor+download+roblox PDF link annotation
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be92a548aa1ff0f71187f1c933eaf39f/wasadepataneluxateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608338559978b---60698884785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bogigewazubonebigolenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2lkeim02eth9fs94mdqfdejvj/32079211854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/dugezuxuba1621102615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfad839e003---60263980076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b67c50d01d2---buwopetifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/79523160164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a09pooanihh883bmf2oc4og84/zeroparunupadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f2e67078e64f097c80ec036e7be7b6/73165967466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgkllmhdaqfv7vifgsrtf194a2/gokoremutejamemumofabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo0p6sc6puot67hihb961ln6r7/wemiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49e1f68dd45cfde07ef08f7205216c7/jojevegezibaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/rukipoforizorire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/zobates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608636e85384d---90944906750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/gepavefowuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE950 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 6d57cc14435011805c0f941841d280b69616a6a7d5772ad4e17d9bd16c089ec7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB71 9936 bytes
SHA-256: d2d53eee65220664c169bb60e1c84dabd0cffe882bdd23030c6a5ae65a0054f1