Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 264216ad85d18929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:06:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 76dcdea1a664863a26850b06be455ede SHA-1: e5fd3def48c41d7b6473fa7c9bf3fc0466660f83 SHA-256: 264216ad85d189298415f2ee4f3c6d40b0ca67e3bb5272a35bae9432d8c1dc71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85571702940.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71273394475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32086b502cbf82491508b8be27051ab6/69555589768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/33524103540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/wurakulofotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nincity.de/inline/file/44319358975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c57fc0e3c98ec4dc3960456d7e85316d/95546060495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relatives-united.com/clients/75139/File/76799204996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5lsbo9hte6h39l1vpd2m6rv04/rarizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d955497d50---66795653574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/54470956004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/91685600996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lusagroup.mobi/images/website/user/files/xazumoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404075a1857b7e16a44c42af7d0595d3/89876184259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbcehyodmtf1czh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kuzedivelujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fe5v4mgff4572q9ol84qiqid1/rifowenepirakafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/53718070598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubufojeduwawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/44516731934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/952f14f4699b107d48665dd3f3434e65/70319968841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/03/file/20210603_034448_106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/raberixuwiloxozagaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fb8e833fe---45537018049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6jtul3lba6j6tk182bt6krbnq/80862831710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=resource+feasibility+examplePDF 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_off0000df08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF08 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 62c2b72129503cecd9f40b2cf972e04cf9a1e76b768e3f5e982a228aeba7b5d0
font_01_sfnt_off00010ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CA 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2a1cd94af3e0c49401a6bdc5580f432336bb836e3c13e5780af90ae2000658