Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 215a26d686bb8c84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

183.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b713adf3f104cc5f90918774032175cc SHA-1: 4f1862ed048f16774d09c29d0b44b355772006b4 SHA-256: 215a26d686bb8c846bea768d1b7784b37c9ee3417c94b99bbfbc819a035489be
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing lure designed to lead users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://andrejc.si/files/file/buxigemagijunawutalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/78667705936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowadalbyt.com/userfiles/files/17126685490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///24353902543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/33142797217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/lojezuxilonosuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/vibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/febetejawejosuvoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202108302235202336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsilver.kr/files/fckeditor/file/291359424611a939390978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/tulowoniwopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109032005302257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baacfa376fe6d9a23e00ac60ce5adbbf/nerikokowesosivena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunuvupurolef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfe1954c70---77785163789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ede22e547c7352f037e0b2f088c6e87/wogokoraxipedapugozove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/66170515309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/vuxifefowejolakotapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/dinusos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774c3788a53---92422521605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55f498d69b---63544877615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf07704065---fofejomevawuvubadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88328efbad85ea1cb65dd0b34036be00/kemukoraboponibajanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24bd672b26---meluxazimajixobamunema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972b46746e1---nedokuxokesonefibowanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=matrimonio+igualitario+en+mexico+2019+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_off00026985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26985 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00028197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28197 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 3cb255227f4c15cda58374967ff7fba694710893745c11f29a0323faab69a26c
font_02_sfnt_off0002b25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B25D 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 0ed24c3330b737cff243e269540163eaae0d5d624a6110683a818a812453baad