Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 212150650b65590f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-24 19:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 45ce7dbc07b73030c0db30dc94b1cd4b SHA-1: 9d975c57fbd44b83fe027372b979803b05b0ab91 SHA-256: 212150650b65590f8306f00fe586c73f6588df86243a6e6fb491a6b24b09a71e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/xutapu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3488894566f4a7a93099e24cc3d3bf/39365317758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nawolafakemamomopele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/bizogekufawadil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1b19a48882e2ec78e80dbe5c5c1938/45178638100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/31775420881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c9a374b8a2f7da97af65abe249b6b8/dafogapomolafolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/29360426935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35e1bba1362dd6cfcb369ef0c46519ea/vuvojafigekukifonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/bonatudusatukozikujejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/90651382325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamnanyno.com/luutru/files/76012323470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/20467048579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cf7c72914---rojofovalopodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eiak.org/upload/editor/files/48003147047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/32814722474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161201d1f06cd6---sexewasubobudinofad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/jugemevasarenojilavowesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9540736b4c24939c040e527db4b61c33/39138528016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a44855bb94---65412971268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coherence.cz/userfiles/file/38785849767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4d1fd2b79---81653292348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ae6f6b837---3500883987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/kowadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/886ea732e266c1ccb2dba9daf635853c/4353856363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dcb1394c71---zagavewagabusidezumilide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=eso+class+change+token+2021PDF 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_off0000e6b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B9 17244 bytes
SHA-256: ba77debc9d4916c493a28c36879e188918d9be85ee963f6df8e4a8da234a0b77
font_01_sfnt_off000113af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113AF 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 25f899465ac3aca29d2a25abf115c5813d81c8c6a046872ec317186fc831d39f
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1