Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21643befa846b7de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f5d3dc9b1d4a8412688d7122fa644886 SHA-1: 6b159faa3f66a02b60c7598b9b888e75343429f1 SHA-256: 21643befa846b7de2fa2c2ec8b5a759000ba00db4e4c3920a7cee6ba8e51e633
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam lure. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt to facilitate the scam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fc34788779bea6f4748c6ef2aa1df1/wirosisakosazofer.pdf
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemafol.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef477d9264---7478882415.pdf
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56315e7a26aa87634f86a04686127e78/95029201156.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d8cf2c868---34701849325.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077847b35249---ranesigumejobi.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609455c7b40b2---pobavugamefo.pdf
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/84525915072.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a627b0a4320---vemamageraruvemetegojul.pdf
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/mejes.pdf
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/9528520149.pdf
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/vinuxizuwiwamebigomuvilo.pdf
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/410941956.pdf
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079db10c7914---wunizojuxepim.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fdde408b1---58630130339.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818c022ad96---vifokorixalirelabijabe.pdf
    • http://chhsmahs.com/clients/8/83/83f479e57a8bbaec88b4a04d821ef24e/File/81602525552.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f9925bd06---98972937003.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/305qj1lnq79g7csb9p2s8a0pa8/89324604475.pdf
    • https://akbaturgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/99496794089.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b777a6cf2d6---52398147240.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabbdce16ed---bunevegenejukulumawapinem.pdf
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/960433342.pdf
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/walegitadarok.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+a+shadow+to+a+picture+in+photoshop
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebe7.bin
ea8dd87a7a2a02add6325bc50406ab191c8c309da911f1a90acc5c4531823a00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE7 10740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010499.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10499 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011cab.bin
1d55e58d985767c5fc56c1e3bc895a762790e47891c6fce4a5da051c54a05cee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAB 17576 bytes