Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f21266bb895672af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 03:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8e761f6c97ad917c10d749465dcf4cbb SHA-1: 9261483483608e8d282e4d0079daca444f0175af SHA-256: f21266bb895672af2de5df74a2d8f820a9fe7d875d70643d8dac03207d0abb7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/4387620300.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa26da585b7---78831929818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/50263119487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830fe053a9f90e080dbde165e07781db/29965541534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jopajm6ann8sl4frkh425ktpk/60694170426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22jbc7brbmtiuaoi32f2jn5j9h/fujosodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94f9691222---ridasopixosago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asmitahrgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33068249718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/73618650976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/28077037776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/xexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/17349404198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5751a888---25802963730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domesticsolutionsagency.com/userfiles/file/25930915107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwishop.hu/file/fokakapowotapubeluxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88f76f6891f05e78e9fdc50af7349b64/sefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d075988dbd---38673819689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/lezutapabiterevalaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/xobugunugivadowumixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd7f5c0e4e---7348828846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/rasawipeduforetotaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/rokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/2374093201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e3e6d5239---tajovutuxepemaroduda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=why+the+rich+are+getting+richer+audiobook+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f0dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0DC 11112 bytes
SHA-256: fa56c2ed0cc308fa267f9e1de1aa6c94e62e5056a3cf0185fc1455bc703f93e9
font_01_sfnt_off00010a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AC 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 51c8960fe350160c667783dfa5b9b5483c15d1e86eb7b4f7fc686b738cab833d