Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f216b0dee493edab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-08-14 16:10:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 75979511f96b9c906f0c5787bd6f90d4 SHA-1: 74c9b7bdb79fd728271764a8736e7473ae88be3d SHA-256: f216b0dee493edab91669d003b915d2b113be76f0830b10ad1e0bbe7b46a4518
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of these links and the overall detection profile indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mordenkainen%27s+tome+of+marvelous+magic+the+trove PDF link annotation
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace7e2ab2df---gusovomonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osbjvbr5bdkr5cajgj291fl2m6/59151417314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goksirlambinowice.pl/img/upload/files/velewupotarufogesexeboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berrybucs1973.com/clients/3/3a/3a2d6910be1067feaf6dc79f90d505e0/File/nufemukavumedon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/sujanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e813e835892---6277967057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents//files/dotufagafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv5hatuubnc0plsc3drrbp2u7s/mixifepuforadobugidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/99940431365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ue13lkcipsjvq3mumaikv5ok7/xulepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa991df23f8ca2a1662ab34d9530b97f/tapatalirikanemovitosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74441bb142---10989793727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/tukeliwaboduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bad2b72d96174c0adfbd016f9c8a278/silutejobizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712ac10fe59---muzajedodiwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu7qce5ihcehkiuh3g24md0tj3/76593989981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/tinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s3nv9ciumseg3eqs39all31c2/pifivurisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk2fls7fkic5uc6j09a5114ul1/88462979969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24432811942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce90b6ffa0---19431569983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2aab787f56---68418082617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b29d87c55a700ecd2a4c3deb4f032fe9/kobosuwokemojimekigazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea5db6b4d654a0e69e8069671ed57622/75402536077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cca5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA5 11208 bytes
SHA-256: cc460d3e307f0935903216585773e799a3af01a193c95c8daa24d80c0d371fe3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e69a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAC 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 67b3c46e7ecf0491a035d5e254914be4b4b18776525e6e533d06add41117a29b