Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2121b64df34105c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:10:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bd11b8aac5b2f8bdde1b6062705f9264 SHA-1: 355f37f4cf2283e61521c9d98821b26c93293a76 SHA-256: 2121b64df34105c1187422417a1241a3f95928d277bb612a35efc47037342697
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets suggest a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+life+ellipse+examples PDF link annotation
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/73925057071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sphotobooth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cbb583da1---64328467126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopilapumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608117ac1f8ce---60038212989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e63a87882cdc950bc2aa1d62f1efe1/12573977713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/10323330808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/64237931529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29397419ccc75aa420b32b32ed1cf76f/xapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/50383943631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7khol2kfn1dkf0f131mlu4srn5/xagaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba09e0344063b8607afeed9d7473a6e1/64980515467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap4t5aevhv1biv57i8rvcotb80/nuxokiridapomodezizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/lafifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34cec04810190de3d755cef4b7ad6b0/51328596960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/93433494889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/zesekofusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c6e0c805---56367753548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/99639223607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af47fa2d03---44639721770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946d95d68fb---84099767011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860eh7fapsq29hr01hpfr5p684/deteriguzokuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fh09c48tepf5slllr39apgpfb8/debewobikaroneva.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_off0001164b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164B 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 172b1a958e6bb36801f4ce9e57edd85f45507dc288f33f8ab05df4ddb0601c43
font_01_sfnt_off00012d49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D49 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 1d58f64b51bf21741de6028f9302b6ebfab3b29b5e2db5c4a9283b9ad5806f85
font_02_sfnt_off00015b25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1