Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 213aecc5fbc8e744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-10 08:29:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee5fe359b7555c1e7dab02ec1916dbf8 SHA-1: 00837b17f1f0c8176c4d10e7fd2003dfbb79408b SHA-256: 213aecc5fbc8e7444dc4be7c2bbb87981dc31490774483da859921fd333167c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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=how+to+write+a+review+of+a+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://finatwork.com/userfiles/file/39443857950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/61594717604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cen7dias.es/userfiles/files/luwameduvupenidokizexumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/sabavamasuvidotepanol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/83423895810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvpom40u0p8cc8hddfunki9303/15686465182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/75127687220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104b206affd9---61157976610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecolservizinettuno.com/userfiles/files/kolulalagizekajuzugemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dotcomtravelegypt.com/userfiles/files/6431713112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/94378167697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/98164856312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/sipikuvizoduniresifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siriusdynamics.com/assets/uploads/files/23662896451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/zokokanenitizekemopopekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2ie6kpgsvkmtnneo0ui46e6o/38532159452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9347e18a6972fcbc17b5b5e7bc5e6de7/lawazinezulekigupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29ebb8e5ef6ed42a362a60424eac7315/84151378135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607031dabb6ab---70638568078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/gifopojodozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/25677388477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucavolpicella.it/userfiles/files/65989176829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/77064335736.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_off0000f80f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80F 16764 bytes
SHA-256: d3c2c3a15f78732191fe89230bc595b43c6d9dbc5f8d40a386c1ec64506adf33
font_01_sfnt_off0001232d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1232D 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 47d351e8dd3258ce38b9567c811460ebb25cb9ca8c5fa2af508ea397efc3b38e
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1