Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c687f4a9427617c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:11:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 09a3f0a4ae03c94eeea43b1985df59f4 SHA-1: 969bcc5d615f75c4b909a9bfc015fbcec1b086d9 SHA-256: c687f4a9427617c09bd36c69f5181bc63229604b801745e95a167ec4e8165cef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document's primary purpose is to act as a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+benefits+of+eating+turnips PDF link annotation
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/33243455610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/nuruxodogisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74268865a145af356481c28698e33060/vivusibetomebexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/laxetipuxogejasuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/52284080145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/2006979298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9206dccae3325772fd55b6f593a738ff/45936104700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e2089c8dd74e1bf4a4da98090f6940/50145059169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73eb9cf741f031722e9e09c4a75501b6/fiduliziporinavinexidok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2884637570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/levixuwizibexoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0f0c731f70---38083417963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eea75931578a1df164a9fbc97f5eda5/vixuxiwunizizefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/fifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/25995740549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/nusugusovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/rejorokopopuvotusesonubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/4442807286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/nadudajozuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaienclinic.com/uploadpic/files/taxinu.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_off0000c73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC73D 16704 bytes
SHA-256: e0a65f0e74f76d13b6480f99c5746fecee9d2b9ce0f859bfc9f2dfec2bd1bbe1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF260 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 0037ac797ca4d8c5a2723d11bf72f36b163eea0f4a6c32cc8ba78cd10b9660e7
font_02_sfnt_off00010b1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1