Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2479bcf65a866e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ed178fb1d8702469075e587a4b226f70 SHA-1: df5b741b63bf27a05fec19a000d5bc79c98e785f SHA-256: f2479bcf65a866e1c97a9f2bc916da051cf66d0278d36754de7341961b211ba1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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=cours+consolidation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f01215d448bc305c33eb1c8b10db416/bonukowawuxemirusefojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d982114d827d314fd0186505f43e9d7f/15995116522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094e067111c4---xakixapumosadodojitutelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7305da76d57a457aca42bef0b6167a2/wepaxaxejubegejogorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/73095655505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a76989d7749af389cbbd6372fcdeaa3/6391913059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/72960252189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f957c6275c---25244971679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/nowimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/depasabiwopadiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46933355ba3cc4f00b03b5ec09a615f3/67188829000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/39465890764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa49a9c4ce19a5c98bdd05119e3ffdc/beximifaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7198636baf---18937592170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/85629193425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i95bem2hnh7gevap0rp4v9blmr/15254444559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ahoagr7efrnk8cvghl88c6lpg/gelowenubizana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f405ccb10b---moxazujekaxutozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/sagozugebiloguxisedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/3248962896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f63d1ef99---zunevematuwekibodimozamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/wafukitawopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0a97b167e---44710235715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/zulodalexisovuguviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanlivin.lu/userfiles/files/30954624572.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_off0000f5ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CE 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 8954efa2402cc185f3b6c2b12174377d26143983ac4564e8792b10cf2715d15e
font_01_sfnt_off00010e2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E2C 19456 bytes
SHA-256: 0dbd40bc0ef54b5927aee794046a0a1b03593527c5cea450fb8c52e8f63879da
font_02_sfnt_off00013e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1