Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f21531ff5985ffce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 484f8739c21f7eb818da17ff630c7322 SHA-1: 6de9cd2d6aae3fa4a62463efffb3cdae6d5322a4 SHA-256: f21531ff5985ffceb1b89cbb390006228170a4a0c29ee77e6582d9a317a81d59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to deceive users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///202105261215_687150631.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121738283115---78792646402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/vosofifikekejekom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ss6ll95dsnhehcv639c8b0c7n/sewuwokofefuzisikafimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/22022306353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607686fc1e001---21814944091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607220eda7e6e---kimadowokoxaruwavisobudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607138e3d9444---81792409479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/legovapejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b0e0bd0c3---bosunofadagevat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0246575061---lodoginimexumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd3ddec8cb---86124949647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/45849239139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed2e058e3b---bumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/tedid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d94d7dce90---58184572099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/fosolokada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebillionbottom.com/business_school/uploads/file/699016477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c8c60b7ea---17729838117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/476602600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/vemixemodegafutaxuragaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=hartley+oscillator+using+op+amp+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_off0000e075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE075 19008 bytes
SHA-256: a7400bede474c1bac77b7c0b794b1f15141e79545b537d286c983af548490448
font_01_sfnt_off0001123e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A55 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 76176dc3ca0234c1f787deef697ae5da4c43552ceb9729b702d7d0a05a82011b