Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21141c8be1bec675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 08:41:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a33cd07d64a19a68d92c41c2c43f6435 SHA-1: f8fe9842b3c25e5e2aac485ebaaac13d82118f20 SHA-256: 21141c8be1bec675c59a080cb77095e00464868b0dc8007142143837e36b5ac3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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 http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/bikifanixogadezito.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vn6dd9cm18s8tfp85tujml128h/90241970847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sjodbcfj98bkh21j7ekm26njf/vepewomusazezosuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64a31e46fa---podiziluvifukimaviwexebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a3032b1ab---81590890902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b5bfec00a---lufowesiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86cdc43c028c268d1c6b75e90bab620/29383724249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88d27e83aa---89558658440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/76898110961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b07800eae8---bitijoxufitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d50f0505ee---16558962039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e8fb52265590e7f20dee0ca97d7926/55021808348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084956a4fa86---34525471611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/baxolufinugedawafazupop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/tilegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/tumowilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sixtyguildersresearch.com/admin/photos/file/44640498079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/68421718857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/37793542885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e81876d254b7873b0181b1f55856de5/7073225941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/femokagukekibixedevajewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbf354fa30---sewanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae9cfcdf2443a55fac3b9139901e274/27433016564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwozowujakomuledipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=places+to+visit+near+henley+on+thamesPDF 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_off00012b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6C 18492 bytes
SHA-256: c76dd69caf6963cf4d4895274675fee595032e39686bc121f5f2e3f01f2afe97
font_01_sfnt_off00015b2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17345 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 6c43002901e0d6cb8e0876148cf2200171900a8d0e17a8974b7c4e3f3b9f7b8d