Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f221814d17437ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 04:50:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d4752dacb2f4b5451edbd71fbf4b589d SHA-1: 811130360f23cb2aac9856f4578cf6bc67d3e1cf SHA-256: f221814d17437ba4d5d1d06aae20563aba4e10ead09289303b374054dc28beac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5645640c64b1b3826e42c84ef55adc95/talubapemudixe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210531000854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itineraire-consulting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekuribivodeliwixuwogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/liwexukinabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5o7l3cg9odq7doe8ffl0dkgm6/194566716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993f7b6eb9f---xalinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/56757582838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ae26de308---rapumatitivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9c59b4ca8---rubosuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschool1960.com/clients/9/96/9679770cb43d952edac6f872f7aef95c/File/77218173349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a9c1282d8---rakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/436af783b76cef105109bc6f9726cbb4/98559223540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/41837044896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/36416048165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexusmediation.nl/files/55869410983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6b8c7948fe---41283354564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/66002718326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86eaed9d263b8c97bb67c0ebf2f5ebf0/52428249678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/60396533028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/boxozokevogibudupuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed742197ce04f17a5afe50aec2683af6/kojasebalogopijape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e2f4256b7b3efa19911f5606a524eef/75382462342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acec9aee4a2---89072840141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=husband+and+wife+finger+tattoosPDF 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_off00010f04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F04 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4bec53a8825016835021963542259183b0d8f144d94166f389e7b15b90f714a6
font_01_sfnt_off000127d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D8 17684 bytes
SHA-256: d4029021161f27f9c72648ac355b3320eeef3b3bfe6328dfa67a2c95bf07e960
font_02_sfnt_off00015677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1