Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 214980e629614457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:11:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ed6e6dfa7e70e3337765322f3ec15aff SHA-1: ff0f930e85dd2b9838bece4b696c2f737a7aa378 SHA-256: 214980e629614457eb2ab02eeef8123e5e77739f0ffa4f0007c818e4adddb91d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and redirect to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210602171721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41dbd118dc---66283114638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e7fa266f76---wunotiralobisamupoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1960.com/clients/8/87/874e400c25abfb160fd1c0cf9913fcd0/File/kewipovulimadivurapotive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/pafirejekije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lghq4f3i5n2dq72ki58qea6kp6/38110086995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/42407132508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ff1899059f712f5de43254cb3d28d31/saximavawebevilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/78576096019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb30c48c333bc56984f1a6bf6fa2109b/20123640454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57107160680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74b19c01ad74f43103d01a9a1e615d90/xazigekovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d0a4f91232---95876215034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1acf914665e717f2908e048f67d9e6/75880014567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a642fe3bc82---44169175155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/mexukafobixorenafolunegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/63546711494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laplacedesstores.com/upload/file/getekareniwegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bca208613---43621210055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/budipuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c305b9bf285ff23e3ae1c7aff10cb35f/pulemarenizaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=change+management+in+software+engineering+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000fe6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6B 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 6d5d1c777f95c0855a9b4feb71692f5441333ca2f2ff41422bd553851e8e9d00
font_01_sfnt_off00012d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D80 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6c7042ff249619df9fe195c08b4abbe84c76799778891dadc249af44dfd679
font_02_sfnt_off000146cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1