Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2122b1857e2e52ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:03:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 060a8cdde01f82ac2209377f50e19f28 SHA-1: 07ddab1997edfe963aa46a212fe5cc79ad6c4d37 SHA-256: 2122b1857e2e52ac9a0f1d7924c6d144af68ad033f90e9a047303e11269939e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+a+birthmark+mean PDF link annotation
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ioqqg19v0gfmt2rvip26b5q80/xedutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thjtv33rmujm42f6tkqdk9ilub/bivuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/24250687925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608023019b66f---pukekakanikotumadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088162b3dec3---biruvuwutekotusexiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828c9aa5740---4410354770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a716e9483f0---38835890500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/bafuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/vunavub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5389455c6a294867c947b7aeaf195098/53650034906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df74dc974cc---kazemugabige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/bizovezufazujiwolebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edsmithestate.com/clients/8/8f/8fcea3baa00381bb68ca4dcda22eb4c7/File/2451126495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729c880a02b---27981776440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/28196983034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irvinenott.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80236390005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dd7a1d641---76624823072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81d9660a9fbe4600ead05a34677be81/24038015388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869b802b002---17487975546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/zutogugeguvedexejizun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evjn4144asdpei7b7to9qpjt3f/59007621292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/48871645033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1a98ea0de134c4d7a1ae09aabb9bee/63074767361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2oqknnsa4gslq9lnbbamqtcntu/1190097774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/tofijuku.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_off00010375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10375 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8C 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 8f4dd0fa8524820752716371fcb5cac914f8f0677e0c477e9c2bfcaf9929f18f
font_02_sfnt_off00013348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13348 17328 bytes
SHA-256: 9dfba9418268d1c7d499ff352f018199158e11fe8d59ae246d922b5a80bd2489