Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2c21143129e6d2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-11 06:36:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ba178b924572bb3db554da39ccd0b62a SHA-1: b2919dca973048b140f2a52f960e3d16f19bac70 SHA-256: f2c21143129e6d2cb746a6bf477b99843f180ad4becb00b80f63501eaf4d66e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing malware or facilitating phishing attacks. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+4k PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cabfd170bc---76991140644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/mafepugozavenevitepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae90bbcb2a6---12139336821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/zimus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47d1d389957639d520953537f20e358/1421438620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/23762386197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b590f7b79ec---vekuwites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/80820342415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701becb56cd---68521112847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac80372cd0c---pupagutimibedumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/nitujapotojibafuwexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/rabirefesakepozapesufikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/pogitomotajidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae392d0beb8---terebowivowomiginagibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/guwomarikizaxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/13625056907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF493 5048 bytes
SHA-256: ea65ae013fb527e092dc8e284fbca56295f4eeb9801474f7c62467db478bd105
font_01_sfnt_off000105d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D1 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 163e7fa371853d5c50782acada4091edb9ca2bea15d6ed164139c45fbca9bfa1