Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c682a37428d6bfac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:03:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2a96b69319fc548c6b2ede7b783c70a3 SHA-1: eb21dc1d6f8a25e81b2c81340103dc0129fa5a24 SHA-256: c682a37428d6bfac6e78b801fc6232f6bf2585821a996504e4336529eec1abaa
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads. The document contains multiple external URIs, including one pointing to a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting a lure for academic papers. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious or compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=olympiad+exam+for+class+4+sample+papers+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f425976417---85802148971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/84358897158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/runinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610309c2bd006---kimabexojokigisuwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-7/20210707143602914786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210816_135213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/81072532013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4ffa73978b---ropawadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/mazuremadakuxiropobobawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2538d77dc25cda387f42020921db3b3/63783599187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/95780886609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717617d01b7---sedixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/nipizepogizitarinakiwema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/25333711365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/005f0f58180807d188b5461dc484542e/40721125603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d229d77abd---fupebozisileralijamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a75bb5fbca---gukuberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d8172a8d7d0747173f8fbfde4c7c7c7/vasazimupavelifekenojege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22ba12372b---duliririgojubexozimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/75963085197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnt-mayak.ru/content/File/rubizapemitojulalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/42460339098.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_off0000c2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dacd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACD 17528 bytes
SHA-256: f22b31ec2cf42f2a039e8ade0c63f03d30ca5c0d305b8890cbb8ed7bbfee5489
font_02_sfnt_off00010839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10839 11288 bytes
SHA-256: f3047d4d8f19e15b6832ac68211d763518a5ae74fcf1e7b994fe0eb4424a9c57