Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 215c40e88997e27d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 17c0da7b85e421b8da018801f50dba6b SHA-1: 1eda80c1bb2e119a98d9d38965a2854bb01783f3 SHA-256: 215c40e88997e27da2fc5caee23576a2151cd38868e5dcc7dae4cb2d7ff9dd7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these external links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the heuristic findings and URL analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a4dbba4be---13988000707.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/nedebiroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/97100795526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b93f0e5b2e32beb24422ccc4af7e3cd/pozekawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56da1a4366fa1fd95c56bc276d9c8f80/23559368826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/suguzorefisodobozunuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a92d43349---witokutebekobebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a0d22241830d78d163996abdd61469/65756383299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ce2b6cf22---bamuwivarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/mukajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hu4chgd402h67k1vc9lcih543/fidumuwekaxanopunote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/wowisusujuvisodesazibikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m3csrl.com/file/jeverofifesurese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5679a91ff1---60895805444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfind.ru/uploads/file/17938359524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feppk5vu3f9dd6rg45989h4hs6/38347492475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7ed737265---wenokedovatewavewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5877fd47c8ceb3ed6f246b12a684543/34856400593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210610082226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/rudewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47lslltspldoguodinio5osa0v/38256380568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/28095571364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/81198563363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1db3571a1---2654095241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74475a7b09f7d9df46ffa11112078670/nagalegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095361db0930---91140139955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=bruno+mars+you+are+so+beautifulPDF 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_off0000ef38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF38 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 2cdd687574e63ff2471549874e6e79755552dbe800f9775c84bd0af4359c9f3e
font_01_sfnt_off00011d10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13527 10780 bytes
SHA-256: b4e6ed08faadf67594d80513e87e92ed24c8289ba5057fb3cf8d5c26c7a7aff1