Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 213ddde90dd3ffea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-21 23:34:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e48e3a62e9954da15cf713a7a27d0a32 SHA-1: 3d21d7ef58bc17e08782282af44a335bbe6b6ad8 SHA-256: 213ddde90dd3ffeabecca638cee2d711d4d62eebe61fdb060a2efb5681411a1f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lead users to further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c22856b78---40150627883.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rivaflo-south.in/userfiles/files/64033696164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210621104813_1710238709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5fejdjckrlkrm77lpok38ffg2/fedakugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/nivejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/xopawane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/89743007753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c12366167---75634405792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12ac20a5a689e3c3709c36994426be9/mifuxunoweveneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d51113f45b---57070572221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trekkingsapatours.com/upload/files/78200092361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/mokugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchung7.vn/upload/file/gijavuzutetuguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9f3578b3b---57671134206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhvgbgs20uqksbpomil546ih1k/47991372681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5ab5796422c1e2ac9785b4e672843d/fibonos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47403abd1eee7b677d98f42ab797c60/jenanigomituliwedifatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/fetekomoxejakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946eea4537b10be6e62368ba15a71f61/93422810605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/77543082194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/690dfa3e990c5e70b78347750bab1e74/sodemomilivamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b267b96b279---basiwuwebunazavosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteibucanieri.it/userfiles/files/63668419117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45604103962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/90168074343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/11678496824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=distributive+property+to+write+expression+in+expanded+formPDF link annotation
    • http://corestandards.org/In 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_off0000d387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD387 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 64b2d495d165ee7a66b5281e82c09d628832d79a8f6dd059b1b28f0eb1a94246
font_01_sfnt_off00010093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10093 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 1c3cf743fd0f9553b450a852be5bbfda8e5af913ee68a4a0ba52eefa331dada1
font_02_sfnt_off00011acd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1