Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a21960aafe6720c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 05:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3ef776d1ee75fd671ed8f9215cb21360 SHA-1: 80415d4998b0808d50ae530d18aafe365629e375 SHA-256: a21960aafe6720c7658f8b8a1a72b53d99c1ad7952ad5332216de978c2d1c420
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious sites for SEO poisoning or further exploitation. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic confirms the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting, and the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a multi-stage attack or distribution infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/vosok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tumonjfk2020reunion.org/clients/f/fe/fe8b949e9fe7e5065ccade199761aacb/File/wofenifevisinuzafalilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafoxajewerikaxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d90e624ace---zufefutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d36a8754ce3871ff087da4e22390bef/70523712779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/lomekowumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080065e981c1---walepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/lidogavawoluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/mapalizubegubadabuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc66631de0---bovumejifixazenodaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksklinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74098668634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/sorerakiginogunenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-24/20210824111748952986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b11f5fe5a0722460f447165940366a/jorovowododan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/vepano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/xelolaxoravawogupujitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7pg6bp2bkl55778kq3n74c5u2/24734853240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasevejipogumukabufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/75482722259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgk2963ba4cn7r0d5ols1c84g3/dirafinatetigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23480389416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/tixokabiparadiforisoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/zesupitoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=norme+iso+2859+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE726 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 3d3d59317f0502e758671a752f8d465e8345b14a05fcf99b4765e5442418d749
font_02_sfnt_off0001004e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004E 18420 bytes
SHA-256: a475a50d81195bb3b78f00914fc60aad52e48a81cce00a932ecf2fee01713a6f