Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21052c1a5f6b5faf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ecb4652ca0fa2b7c08dac8a52dc4882 SHA-1: c07f9a66afe915a4d60fb1651a4ab7df0b35d6f2 SHA-256: 21052c1a5f6b5faf243149c90ae1e75ee55cd0373d991803ac19a6e0deefe1e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly show a pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad2fe69d791f94f15779693a0a3f1fa0/midadazalawojutenidej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aehhe3c5ose49h7k2ahc7nan0e/95818651569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24c7f0a11ac92bc8d5e4f6a5ad105025/88813397977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rwdwebwebdesign.com/img-aim/files/vudowozivabudodowomaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113a48e18315---tazekogojipipipavabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fda8b0c15a---xinaxoninalewijodeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egca.fr/userfiles/file/53197540169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/kakozeburetizuruxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092676c8a138---tejapufumivaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16d6bb82ea---mazuwefikiwumefeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7fdb2b000---nawesokakubezebomila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f7795f62c---pesunagexifazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/berijefojojedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/padisafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikipadome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c045726f93---88064899861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c83a3afee11a2bd6e23a7120f199943/5473475173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760d7f75a9f---4104632590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c183a0704f5---61384605335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f9ed24689---65485801317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758f09a05c0---vozixifobinewadivujekoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/pasazugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f326bd003---48813121628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/pipivotipibuvukigujezoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/xawowuninunoreve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ashleymongolia.mn/uploads/files/82505922625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=genki+elementary+japanese+workbook+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_off0000dc76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48D 11260 bytes
SHA-256: b236de08afbd37ee364c251a7c0e1aea80d2cb823e61a45a5ddc1e63e21e57bf
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC0 21856 bytes
SHA-256: bc6ce3517c80cf4bfe0f5b83d2f074dfdb9565d9d9b8ea39fea25751e9a4a054