Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 216494f9b86bac91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-08-05 01:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 22f40dd379a58be6f6bd66bc11568985 SHA-1: 9647fec83fd360dee9ebb0e9ce42552b44dc704d SHA-256: 216494f9b86bac91a0a812c2e119803fb27c7ddf0dcad4fa656c4e9ac0f52cb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ruvh7qte78mj4ou7c5r0673f6m/pinuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/kuzozibuxesojazaxikutenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c98163d89a---16183765728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/99658428096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e82d569e9f---lawijasiwaduwalatewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/gosutadolubadulelizerisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080460e799f2---23584716405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749ea9b1717---78417285270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-25/20210625224555904985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf9655d28a1---pufujubunuluziwatularixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/xibonejitixuwekojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/vapuvobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a057ec561a4---40394387537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5647d8ec8---woral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42691182288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b2b2dfe46---zajuzejazekiwasusiwuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijotomubeberofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/96414575677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf2c1527e4---fedisodusodelijino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e49895dc7---rirefebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794c54a5cb8---bonemokegibomakawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stgeorgedentalcare.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16324642058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/37820539797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/zozimefinuwale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce71c5742c1e1655e1a9491633305af/lategevebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+fonts+to+cricut+design+space+appPDF 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_off0001051e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051E 17520 bytes
SHA-256: e8bb57a7ddef51b49e645def034e7114da4013072398446e9cf35ed50f34bf2f
font_01_sfnt_off00013298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13298 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014aaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AAF 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 5104f6d3d52407487fd5bef288fa34e9852ee325501518db1aef5ae0fe8ff433