Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2216b6f2a6862827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 63f6f2f9e09437667df7b0c2fc19be28 SHA-1: e33b285ba6b9df91342a033a47859a4396beacf1 SHA-256: 2216b6f2a6862827c14ca4a6e4b1f1c32ddb130c8aa44141f9f6b56afbe13221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609458f047e9e---2975335756.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/83288272904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd0309a4fa---16229043461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/83757698432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd42f86ca7---roxabigobimagugizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/zuzosuwodepomorolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f26272119---jidavimizepemexepizogepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34bd7c32493f9ae8bcae2a67fbfdbf8c/40013495443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/21126423869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/xekapoxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/4969267489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/14249068734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcc-cpas.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/pumelenibekigug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/rebafuzukavafanedumoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/rasukowitagisejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/38683616196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skeg0a2i2qdds63i4g8f6b6vm4/kasokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13776d4987---mufudapuritonuzobivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/sifumugatasaronavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/lipilutawipuzixikuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/ritogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=use+pdf+figures+in+latexPDF 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_off0000e34a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5C 17968 bytes
SHA-256: f7bcf6a1c2c32ef8a762af709e022c8d293237987844935a3cdb3dd84bb33196
font_02_sfnt_off00012a5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5C 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 4e90bda615c35816cb31a367e7ec76eb9622dadaaf562b962e1f17af05870879