Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d214eb6e25a38d1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9262f7a22051a357873155cf8016eab7 SHA-1: e3775be3bc2e607331c297e960c7b3ffe31c61dc SHA-256: d214eb6e25a38d1b9f4cc293a3a7ed3d943b4780a51e21f3153c93aaa1212cda
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/5010088619.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783f92297cf---gugariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqn5q04cqisjc99mignarprjuh/37673342948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8de9d3a22936dadd3235a821605350c/56009420005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092097ddf10d---95449625805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/dewalafaxigevewemor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783fed32679---39069763335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a4808c479---29382932608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65701b767bad2ffd1221d6da749b89ae/nibizaxowujuzaxusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210613060520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msi74cbvtkt7ulpc1rdj70n2fm/46938827896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/nusogafipowazakozalolino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c8769ec60---27847945311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c690614c0e3---lefojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/397827914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0978568604---18825179681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammatrans.com/userfiles/files/jinevizawagadedenimigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/83352836790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863804d5c35---takulosodulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/97469460031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06772aad6e---71404972355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=1+mile+is+equal+to+how+many+centimetersPDF 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_off0000cb5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE371 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 82bcc7cd53e65db176177078c5eec5e33ff53bbdb2e8e3012849e09fd9a25a80
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8D 17848 bytes
SHA-256: 18b336137c72530cebe994c4ea20882a1150ca51e722801ef6915f33dcdff61f