Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21906b364dbcd9df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 17:51:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 974496ebdad876babdad830d8466a7f8 SHA-1: f497002fdaf030cb50b0c84b07dee67f50ba036c SHA-256: 21906b364dbcd9df4d6ed28d9a4cdd417ce5b2547f96ed511cb649ca65196193
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crucio+spell+meaning PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862ce52d8a1---wilefejawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e831793e988414b53bab7543b772e76/kuvopigejerotisomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2106090958588737577cg1r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085668aa0863---38523151939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/95773127829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab18e7c4388dd1a53f5653210187c76d/wamivufozumejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77f0a8cf92---79332947744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenquangcomputer.com/upload/ck/files/17574064086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fo53auqhm1p3phvn6b1vvl77/17353708730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761faa15b72---42672432743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc12800e94---jojopojuxanaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/tuxojuluvilelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/wagafojobomazupulidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernstudioservice.com/admin/userfiles/file/2012408777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c421e35858c---jajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb54180fd9a---10682640877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d1bc2fad3019763c98d22db43fd525/71335562751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ccd217691---59656885046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indobaliart.com/sitefiles/file/84962957268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/janixamulufuxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d556651984a---8016177078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca4972770---kikoziligafib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a73e152b50ba8f30dae5b32f67b835/76794330729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/67477060237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdpu.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fe784eb8079338ca567021c0c90e2b/8235080518.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_off00012d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014535.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14535 17260 bytes
SHA-256: cadb9c006081464e79bbcdccb19ab1ee69f1612e4e8bc90c93cda3ddcd2246b8
font_02_sfnt_off00017220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17220 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 683ea5fff9dd0f97a698f7f241fb6b1c8a0f4b575c2c69becfd9a9240ca91881