Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 821f28cb2064251e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:48:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1c7d205b4be62bc1b204f3fc5b959b56 SHA-1: 366f0a9edfd4be6a2edcd3547858557641aa5830 SHA-256: 821f28cb2064251ef69d32a30ee954835f943726b5d53cfc3302a401b6d67c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. This suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://classicandcamper.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ithph511l043ah3e7b88lmghqi/60242322980.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//zijexine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b42b89eb8e1d91c830c72f8e599c51b/fabazumopijipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsqc9tln5u7tighahe3s1rp9cl/boribap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images//files/70869353753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc252a8e063---zesapupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/70721892429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22c2664b1c46b9faeb96948ab8097e1/gabefumuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/11703773476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085092159c30---paxugafezipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/24910743767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/sokaxileluwoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rakkhunnursinghome.com/user_img/files/45010717084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/vufosoxafolupesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/kaxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e94afa425a7---62175524406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736adc25385---79585995535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrloaiibsaj8ujnk78hflmlchu/fewumezakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106452993823---bekupesijixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec7d5d8f8ca01b8428b5eeb3c704189/towadakopomirujakumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_E13F85735F88A8C5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=oki+c711wt+manualPDF link annotation
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210826/16299451665589.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_off00011b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13324 10276 bytes
SHA-256: d744aec194354510dd9e48de7509fbfee09d173da87a74226741dd427845a1d5
font_02_sfnt_off00014a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A6F 20796 bytes
SHA-256: fb97402399f18afce3b4db4e72abf7fcc7630af6d9212cc1dbb05aa5a3cce0d0