Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9215a21e67ac9c4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4ffdfe9c8d0540eeda74f09f4ad1acd6 SHA-1: 4e9a554198f5971734b32ff8319bec46221d677b SHA-256: 9215a21e67ac9c4c54203bdd581602f2128ceb866abd72bf0daa652896931a0d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting to download further malicious PDFs. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests a phishing or social engineering tactic to trick users into initiating the download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=12th+chemistry+1+mark+questions+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b11f52def409b7d9420091a2b5d3deed/tolepolibodemedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1a74bfcf6eabba49c1f9ec9219e960/kiziwaperevajuvepilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a71b88f77---5916803410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c937ef1cb4c---koxekibexufimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400d2fe345b4483f850004f1631f01de/jevetuxisupozuweluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vetitovodubimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88149d5c65c7e5a1dd738abec08de5b4/70481896755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c888d8a1c08---64476927167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caf-ljubljana.si/docs/zetune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76ac5e6b84---jowenolodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d87e9b527ca---jaxewatidibonumagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20530d23f6---dajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myappartement.de/web/editor/files/86772930446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e8fd71f7dba6c5e559a4a7c68c73f1/zeripud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkde1tach2fudp10pld19p2ri7/bibipepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363a2b1c028af8a98b1c12b9f33ff7bc/59426279557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nanazoniwudixigofov.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_off00011893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11893 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000130aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AA 11064 bytes
SHA-256: c87a3618d4f29ed51358324747a77c9775876f89a5798c982cd0657aa128a4c5
font_02_sfnt_off00014a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A6D 18508 bytes
SHA-256: 597600c6906b2fde3b652dadc7949d724d028f0ea34fcfa53e6d7e53959d1832