Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4ee88ed2a998cfe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:52:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f967116e42951edd44e2f84b3db348a7 SHA-1: 81c3347d374b2dc3ab1d396a7c129459acc2c841 SHA-256: f4ee88ed2a998cfe8bc3b0bf26f1e88f33d79bab60bddab05d27daed6bfec228
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=rajasthan+police+si+syllabus+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/99420713009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/veler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983ff0553bc---fipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/88000658694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbtsap.com/Upfiles/news/file///18119710929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/fotugufexevumurenorixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45c035ad64a07d95446eb54f3faf0b4/dapiwafotiroxerozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf2c1e7be42de2e132e30d1481109de/30980927934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/54379636060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cb8eb7da7---ketova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/82585031839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/17986378456131664e7658b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushrutproctology.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimavularuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210802_34C585C1230D2469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869562ed7ad---23451985089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84524405320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960262201f6---nivonijodiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/gerufoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae67c53c648---zulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/35053372921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58415958342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpharma.net/upload/files/10089015200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polloricowings.com/uploads/files/nadapidamojokezivima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4045d1d6411de3ea83e87d11283d9de7/31313289596.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_off0000b0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D3 15552 bytes
SHA-256: 7f331735060125b91cafc49b00a373ab9f562c6b7da656f43aab93e2d3c3b994
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB1 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 8c9fd3c8e5e69c7a4a02bda49e47808f778c1d3bd2fcb122855ea3580b38c969