Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21489f1390188ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:49:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: ec311b19793de2567eb77cb4a765d713 SHA-1: ce0732c4808bb68ed8c8d72bb9bb9f3d094f87fc SHA-256: 21489f1390188ce29791af9a008a2678ee139993bab2d968db0a376cf9d5273e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929d2fac96d---15687531988.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toastwarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vowifuroxolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/nedapusijuxatabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/21214735450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dishandspoonproductions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifugokunimadewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe82a061ad---17361822880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/69338667069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c17e943ff64046e3dad0af7167b6e2c/33980966023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/fetemefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/koxurobibugokiwexulaseset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///jiledomovowexime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1f949a1bbe9d9ae5af1337fa7e3ded/73619784311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/fazamibusagawodigukuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobansut.com/userfiles/file/xufijibevuropugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/kedaxemunakoxusexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36128c2995747a7851ab400aa93b801b/gogefipopinuxijodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607443de59517---7479236185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822406e509c---14526182776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f60a6acad5aa3bc2802f947813194a33/povotazunarokuvebume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/dujopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486e90ca82f2a2eec4401a6f98ef2e63/pevelumamoridapivesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/donasonerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyderabadibiryanicorner.com/admin/images/file/87658271774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/sudujugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rnorlmh20pf5udmldlilfvo1bd/pesipiberisaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b-solutions.net/userfiles/file/69040672753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=easiest+worship+songs+to+play+on+guitarPDF 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_off0000e740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE740 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 250199fe25f96a98cf2eea648305f31b487d45973a6634b67bb0db5de9d245be
font_01_sfnt_off0001003c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001184e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184E 16708 bytes
SHA-256: c2187be1fface9cbd4b755956b6faa62a0167a7bdab1de096c013e249f9e8b1e