Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21124d2c9af08c3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:49:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 687c3e4c708ca68c0177f3d624777f67 SHA-1: 7fc9ecbee7c6a1e45ccf27c8c8bdb1a887567974 SHA-256: 21124d2c9af08c3c8abe4599d7c5c78102837f354830126c3b6299cea40d5b36
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or download of additional malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98112565430.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/94571366579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/xaburoveledadegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/sapixafubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doremimarlikinsaat.com/userfiles/file/90208245327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/42854958305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izometal.net/mm/file/73342173561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianhairtransplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57521043308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614389c36ce7c---82599208123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/rebifiruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/50482251762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nk-sostanj.si/files/file/gaxojevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f05058216d---64964354685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614280b1c321c---nanelolitisodukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcpremium.com/userfiles/files/9306611724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23042495755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54e74972c742006555aabeb481e46403/fizimakoragawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3m51bno2fqs7jtenk0k16hi5u/45547316917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/funupezopujulibamago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/18690298008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/guzudesiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/fagapulobefopupowubozalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/logewogimojaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+story+mode+hackPDF link annotation
    • https://www.assessment.unibe.ch/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidevagawivutiwusuk.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_off0000e6e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E7 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 6a9deb0bed3d0811bea701561aa6cf9090d9efbbaf4eaaf36f191c5f0799d944
font_01_sfnt_off00011abb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132D2 10772 bytes
SHA-256: be68e967f5a736bb9bded31355b5cb736d6f1b404d648b3afe07cd7ea7cb212e