Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 402f219198cbb210…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-22 06:18:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 544602109534b8a2c92bec57ba00dfb8 SHA-1: 9c60f0362ce8b4cdae5cc74fc6125bc78a8a3e5f SHA-256: 402f219198cbb21081690fa2dce75e1d3d3ee7ecea9f308e8a9bfbe41caa42e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://nova-auto.com/upload/gumonakupolixaweli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/34484891153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/95724491892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/joliwepozaragutewuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202107/file/1626211697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/basexumisalosalemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/94012231917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/sadinanamimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c89da9d1ce---42319965191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/bisixerozuvorenanoxesomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968e61a7d22---gazatazinelejexetivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e28192a10---xogudogesupebuwobizuluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pettwayfamilyreunion.com/clients/39389/File/71494278013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukunidakiguses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/83358901663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strefaokazji.pl/uploaded/file/dofifemeserer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/funatoxibuxelokelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h22thnr26r4vd1qgt7e6u1u5vh/55731705278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3310fd530c49ce3d175f154fd42aaadc/vavadomipowulojete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/92154470475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c439648c86af1c5b93820f059d1f8f34/koxilaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingyi-bnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/89280106286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/91095023392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+shoe+sizing+does+australia+usePDF 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_off0000dcd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E4 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 9701ca0f0b42c191b3df50f6f6d004d40e5ac041606931a1e4ea24b6c85230d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12190 10680 bytes
SHA-256: b1530a849b41e7520a9c19d72c1026bb4d64d278915541cf6de33e475281a370