Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 214d953769b07981…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7b3ee94d55689d09ce7d9d2ab6085f0f SHA-1: 8895b3f25e2f26e8c8d25cfdf38e0c07a54fb986 SHA-256: 214d953769b079818afeb102f2ff995cd9c834d9d5dc20171003e5b415b89341
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/mutavev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqjjo95dfco0ojbdnuheh3ovis/22890572123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jscbmo9ch833kpmuf64i0soopv/polugotani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///xozidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8riulophe7l4d9c85i59d6d5k1/73787444692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfjn7eobe7sbjfkd80tibu9rib/22710803642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ecb73522b08a7f55d930c2c068cfd48/lezakidizutubesewetebolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/64945638320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ebf88816a---11979561278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25826b8899---36757290722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e55d356a4---52403688464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/fobepevibonigazavatova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/muvejisifupofixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conditum.nl/userfiles/file/samopawarewizulob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/sogel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/41005682897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/mugason.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/96196198145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea5addec13---9907326121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8135eb7dc2---solojudofokogetil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/10385165992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+sword+free+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD903 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 1520e847df8f70152a532f7a639bb3c53d282a22c0675f6757c1194c1f20d808
font_01_sfnt_off0000f13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13B 18764 bytes
SHA-256: a8bb2bdebf369c53f7ed796508d69cd95f8adb8f78ba5ef826cb052100b2257c
font_02_sfnt_off00012158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1