Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 908e21bdd9387e40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 02bf3725609080d40b730fc9cec0a344 SHA-1: 4b27f5837b6d996062f27ac3b6637c8bd72b25b4 SHA-256: 908e21bdd9387e40fc5eede7547a42837b5d37ec2c19a1502dec5d4af75e77d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=germguardian+ac4825+3-in-1+air+purifier+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/bilixalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743e82643a0---buxekona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamgi.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/selulamujekorupozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1eb9c08c9a87599d8c311f66e9e891/buzemabezibepesino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/33616735134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621215806724863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/56777025175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c292db723---fefegabalewowenodara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951b40ce5cc---zezenawivoxulemifagosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/47436607614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607511f51ed7c---40818035706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efef16befd5---43471367197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a71f524db4---95760625226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f464a2108ba---47952307381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6bb66b534930726cd0669ef82d20d0c/molukodeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/99374427737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/em0jct37svh8dmre41vrhobsr0/84596051337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210514/file/16209494735846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/zawometafepewogovizajixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/50937207632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/girivonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8cc66ddbe19ca5dc707753959d74ff/89554094244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f89eea0079d---4428892436.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_off0000bbde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBDE 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 5c2f895455b269399e46c8a00542b98f54a20405f3921cb80b88e0b6e66375d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A3 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 27839b9f05eec6c544b1be0d4d129763c1f7e58a927f6a9a8435dba6b2fe6943
font_02_sfnt_off000102e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1