Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2208f26e6f828161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:56:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d7e867d72368dca0e9488ae254c3f08b SHA-1: aea2347ad54e185ad0a444a09f50fd17708d8ba8 SHA-256: 2208f26e6f8281610f3c209bcf27224e966dd9fc9719078b3155676e7516948f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external 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 distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs point to a common tactic of using compromised infrastructure to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=navigator+useragent+match+android PDF link annotation
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6d83f40f9---1700650297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoshitomo-kokubunji.com/jcfiles/file/51193204450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vps73.juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/tiguvamidige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136323f00a4c---69193067939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338d75a86ae---zililewegekidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarteabungalows.com/userfiles/file/58975187978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/48686659982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69100368462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/37915609666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/48429485232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/17576580423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/46758432998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/56391942575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xprchemical.com/upload/files/kekudesopatojetaxawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masirozusuruwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/35675071638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/mexomiguvevevuluwapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/73338461424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicasoftavukatwebsitesi.demowebsiteleri.com/upload/files/87252063071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/biwegipokifiniwujamamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fdf509e5e---5748078264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crossfitbeeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/jevixiguxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/taveja.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_off0000cad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD4 20524 bytes
SHA-256: 2b590ea5425e3abd4bc3362e11df44854a20a491261688d45badcf3e381f62c6
font_01_sfnt_off00010191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10191 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 248ffd279a0fdb0736e0f300cc5ea0db2fd6d6d11398578ef0119f8cd417ba46
font_02_sfnt_off00011a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1