Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 210097f4685d9449…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:47:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f0b2d8bd65b9d60fb9b20c541f782b2c SHA-1: 9a251661357c156ddfdbf182718767e778cc4ec1 SHA-256: 210097f4685d94497f960c8ce7cbaac977fff1406ee7de28b4d7f36cc78964fe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgptn58be2h55bidbv731frcp6/70491926390.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/zowaxotumoxoxegezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm4ta1f4f37f012p6p369mnbg6/jodevonezonolozudazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targdenunti.ro/userfiles/file/sinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73187d184864b9a7b7889ce477a79bae/nikironutozewibawadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32ae88a938---jejofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/rawazoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/35669021597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p5avcjga7ionn0kodaik23kn1e/wutalibuxinizarajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/61696816245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuue0tc48urhintqa1n3pfe5l5/tebebobojegosedulugokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94317946274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/lewawidalipinogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c935671e911---mimosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1975e8d97257465540486bdfc1a75d52/tojisikazasefexuvoguluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurvedicclinic.org/userfiles/file/bulobamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e950fcb8d6591a6e949166265136da7/79457958422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buzmakov-ua.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujivoxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qg73oj6v7gnijcj7mp1labr103/44871341619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094346356f2d---jirosivelidepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607673c905356---xavabovatozizixiberufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/42305125617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/66725516953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210614055839_1694275152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+political+science+class+12PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e81c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81C 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 7f80995946b498d7694c28c9b343900d83690a538d732ea815eaeda99b4fc992
font_01_sfnt_off000100ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CE 17472 bytes
SHA-256: cc240566d93d08b8c62b016bc77792f49776adc0460b424c77789d0faaae630c
font_02_sfnt_off00012eb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1