Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a214ab910c101770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 14:01:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dd28135382b0736a5dd7b6aa9e5eb1d8 SHA-1: 646b52aac8873dad1691ee88acc6d80cc6ff7fa1 SHA-256: a214ab910c1017705d533cba879552f40a42b354b7ea3f91735391e0e16b8f9f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=movies123+quiet+place+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/42879546901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/64750788585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grotech.in/userfiles/file/26272649711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/renereratopujufefiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/698eghsj0ml837k99cpuh1svqk/696525463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veziworagekuborebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3s1ldutka07el8pa3peei955/24145264797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/leteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210916003250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wowodid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g55net.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xomixuwijisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/75852931923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/lofijekig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427d0d6c997---rofivodovesete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/jigesugasefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/ditalafesolalimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/salelixedejegarozexadoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/noriponuzajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tincorner.vn/uploads/files/82405630541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/42029463515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/37904364521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3964560433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1273205357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210911095752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ln80.cn/filespath/files/20210904033308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/30904937443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130709930a81---7542097576.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_off0000b1c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9DD 10812 bytes
SHA-256: b5af1a72b26f9ff6261c82685480d6d1e9ff5744a84ce3a58cb1ff3618ad0e6f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE324 15016 bytes
SHA-256: ee9c18887fc6209821e4dee139850f9f7cd8ba60c66cb9535a0bc4610c83477a