Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b21e94d71da1f09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cd1ecb4ae3cd8f25154d8f66dd8cac3e SHA-1: 24dacf56313addd4c6234c076bbcc3f6f11ddeca SHA-256: 0b21e94d71da1f0986ba476bbfe97c030cfeb4c95227248fccb333ee80c3ff39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on compromised CMS uploads strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://cncunse.com/d/files/97454871970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec0bf327f8---49755150486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siltherm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47578015684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/10087439304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogazumopanidaketi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccbe5c3ca2c0d6d2558a95c6ff8f2cc2/nigefuroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/sefazizetikenudomuwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dc4c2ed76---govakiravakiluwupederel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770ee365a55---92375693134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/sozewoxaxavademeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd62d36cc6ac76a9d11382ca3abae37/vibixumewanamudinoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/titolipopuxawafifegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learningsolution.ca/userfiles/files/54970197156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5f687d9e69cfebe62b736f69cf597a/85328237836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aalatour.com/basefile/b2caalatourcom/files/62804141707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65582898040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/boleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f609ee53fe45f0f522c8d281a906f5/93629353508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3e46916c0---96995294949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadatv.com/webroot/img/files/nelofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/24520775770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/lajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/21854249412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4uk3sgacqdnime652pob8jr7ot/38560426672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c7b444a84bfa54eb99c5a47dd39a32a/zurimegibatipavij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=chongqing+subway+map+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_off0000e46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7C 19500 bytes
SHA-256: c39947fbcb887ef2eeb8ca2e4108a850d75ad8e5c50d3bc786592eb176a61be8
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8C 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 9d6175a4c7924aa148ec7e6f2e64c149425e3ce517b43b0adbf07907c575e826