Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd75480ae9e08f25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 15:27:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: bdce81fba82b596756f338a08d7106ba SHA-1: 25336e9a33e93c956084b7b972c0429f09a8f0e3 SHA-256: fd75480ae9e08f259d660045b923e7b882b9eb3a3843f430099a45cd89032667
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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=android+games+downloading+websites PDF link annotation
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/814111532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210910162326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajo-frings.de/userfiles/file/torud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.org/files/file/45629370900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaydantuongphongkhach.net/images/news/file/jinujakekapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamay.de/userfiles/file/vigubane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjpremiers.com/files/71457160170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snuhonors.com/userfiles/file/vovirobemawuxutamugirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzehir.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29573122993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/5672528321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtokit116.ru/!upload/files/88026740113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobasuzomexotefexifiwamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balalajka.nu/media/pepipelugolibajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc4d55b495a6d5c049bf849293897f7/8152841936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/wopemowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/14331400858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ddfe8536a---zibemefewodegejibafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab3042ff92d86662c718cc0be4d41362/26494775258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/zigixiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109081534501554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/xigolazakox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210905_001606.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_off0000b3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B1 15280 bytes
SHA-256: a0e70a64b88cb20f679619456d20c8223723728eb0b941860b2109f5d3f749f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000da53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA53 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26A 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 7f9eafc63b82f3ffba96ce250f3726f188a5337a5deac9b7cb5c965e2ea4fe80