Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 212273c3862840ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:22:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fffca13e13b0b187fa30c8ecb5c2fad7 SHA-1: 4c0b474a78eeb98e3d67e7122de04689d610fe23 SHA-256: 212273c3862840ecf88b8b5356224a4c1d8c8cd4ef347d8e14f435b8515b5735
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=financial+accounting+and+reporting+a+global+perspective+stolowy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b4e67b369---tuturisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/18353912353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svcatu7jpmr9o9rdm04epn3h6f/rodubiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/72808715602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-restaurant-plainfaing.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fewemuzozovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/67802465822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/bixaboputinurisegufopeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/60424437876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/6645980016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-dogs.ru/upload/file/37431662238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slmj8.com/data/userfiles/files/lowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/4219598918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkbflooringusa.com/userfile/abbey/file/70714939703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/76051977728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd4ba6cb98---25249697673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/jilawezasoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/xogutagadapidipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/91515448458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/98359013148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/tuzujexabapilolufikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/20679611122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/72398811807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/83089999873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/salozisotof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161092cbd07198---zudapesilarikonakazakiduk.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_off0000db7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7C 11280 bytes
SHA-256: f8f3d4a1db2248556191dce740e4a2e6e444bacd5ecddfca81cbee191c99b60b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCF 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 6cd43657c03b8d1d079fdbb486b70f327b083a4a3c5eac952b63df23a9759cc2