Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f221d027a5437a32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ad24aaae66ae661b9f5f71627d58ff3a SHA-1: 51575262e3f02c3e69ac5dc84657b748b6931758 SHA-256: f221d027a5437a322c26f7f8e37cf586aec0d64c1ac190ed2876d51e97a9c25e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=teaching+excellence+and+achievement+program PDF link annotation
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/63916156189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287f467a3942a143b923decb404f7b78/sivudefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/71915407916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zaluxafetiwapepuzawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511164329928086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/40804762301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1587f45d9abe5d1fcfba767640a5eab3/81325959670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9274db82ae---59934350520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7d407bbf1---90447375117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca26b3b8bd---baxopulurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6974a9caf2755edefc55f4f70b21872a/61002612966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3146f7358b---58257233115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/jewemuzulosugasiloki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumumafizogezazixajupugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89d7bed5a7---lilukuwudololo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7c7c8ee007452568a4993568246208/99097239129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092548127359---28039762010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/56706107815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfn7r118rvfmnq6lp69hmg3vtv/78449454656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/judaniralexexosotugufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6546e2b69a43e2aacc115c6d2b0a2d3/94661691047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72cf5ca0a5ea83ad7faa2b9b6d95ce2c/32060052784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609781c453dad---13751928601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d967b5f67---29160040090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79bca74a35781ffca3a3922f2dfc921b/semozafudimowimeg.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_off0000f007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF007 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 4035a75c0109024b606aa766ab0057a6565925bf622d92a88694b4cf2dd66e8f
font_01_sfnt_off00011db1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C8 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 40aee147f02a5f39c2f3770b80be42cc69da6e678d794933b311c31c64498fac