Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c106216f249a8de8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 12:25:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 88d7730146e9d182f6d0aa541157b8e3 SHA-1: fb53a44ac61617a8dcdad5a6e647f7c0b87300eb SHA-256: c106216f249a8de82d51a0a8cdb23f097a0337298eb33fb99d28d7dd7027916f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://alfadent-volg.ru/images_uploads/files/40651350051.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d899c750---xoparosuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c6541381fe4e36de7de07b57d61748/tekawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/vabakejomebetalesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e961be7ccccddedb23a897be168a01f/jadirujikunidazedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdndln8arr87q04pdfu948vip/15982720426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0442e8b329be37adec8d98c1ca1b1950/womisuxolukerupume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f760bf553c2ad34b3b1545e5682425b0/28912437022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d81eda54c53---kegutedidibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe55b4255c---17708944329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607306b287e3a---sonezixubujureteja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/boraxuxigepalidivekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/mububa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee212774458---72964485724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/xuderavipaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c21d307ce---306938824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/58924019828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/pegoronukadifuxuwatafuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/1519358261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexujokeworisuvetoramut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/vijafadewukobedizilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporopools.com/contents//files/foxadomeniwexaluvulibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1vv18rkfaqrkbfb8q6ns0opt5/31547860809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=losing+coolant+and+overheatingPDF 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_off0000fb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1C 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 6b2a07f21828227920d7df2e5108cb9aecaba44c4cbac80dfed35425f6b9acc6
font_01_sfnt_off00011352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11352 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 66842540a50bf60748f23718a728733a9d8cf81730ec83fd81a06cd1df426a44
font_02_sfnt_off00013f76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1