Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 217b0eefede31246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 25db5ee0eaeb50f41ccf1d25360d7508 SHA-1: 3f0ca4c868fb973bf94dabbc6c38781cb0370188 SHA-256: 217b0eefede31246ca76db3ef6b1018f59af1f79367d0e000ddf447ce1e375b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=terra+sorb+foliar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/xikimunaxuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/fuxenujadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aec13869cf---16906766256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/rizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8c8f61bb5---soruzubolinetewojixafeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c251e3e372---wonezodegedezigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/24573170939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coopinproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digewenominoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaycafe.vn/uploads/file/rabifazufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78096f9bba347adbcb8240e5d0f3c8a9/49275760077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/85333376973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magnettoptan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nizamemilovinalida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/53645063232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/womifutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/86789491002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/77435817708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/23635019017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/wutimidurexufefajuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/25303826944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/21727687066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d7fb7bf2cc5c263bef16d57eb5bf42b/55882185838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4c8e6367b---97857932422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa910889387---33045512148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfindia.in/userfiles/files/kapumolake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c8fd8381d---gufano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF378 10392 bytes
SHA-256: b1d7b74db176b0b4bbb0195f19143c2780f7106a60c7bf1ecd5adb47d51bbfc7
font_02_sfnt_off00010ace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACE 22432 bytes
SHA-256: c0255de0a8216bf089250169495a7c49e02d34012e26efeae7e3395e77e525d4