Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2921d60985a9fad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: afa0a49f56d8368b825fb8af5b21c051 SHA-1: a17924a268a912fb53a665bd5dc194069d85a740 SHA-256: e2921d60985a9faddf08ac35abed7b2f28ca5197531508910f438452a533cd15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=find+my+cell+phone+app+android PDF link annotation
    • http://cl-metalparts.com/d/files/10530082294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/11855421055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/zefixunagusakafejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb50775b23019a8dcad3bac401d6630/60346357778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134391508b9c---86017441130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glttek.com/userfiles/file/ziwemisibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210901172945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66287756753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ogledalata.bg/uploads/pages/files/povuvubafonavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fa61127462e451b0b36ffa8fcd9fdab/71609204971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/7938284964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/xuwaxalidelamuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanphongphamhienluong.com/upload/files/jemodonawegalesefamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/54241311725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2612b10aba67d1854e9bdfc471378d4c/ferefinesemerilejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/55063940720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/14019504421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/10554309738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/xiwodorerorobibitadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd6d8fd8524b40a0bc799641d3b7ea5/26432697621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/27279144397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d21f13c549c3ccd597850525f410beb/56890395974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/55262557515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/31581196901.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_off0000e01f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF831 18324 bytes
SHA-256: e73dcab705c1195d5010111a53de878ff140f50344695fe43d4eed36baeace35
font_02_sfnt_off000127d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D8 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 2f60ab861b895c3f6babb2513dde92383107ba6e960691ed0f7b1155cb870054