Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21916f87d949b4fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8c50ce277e3e2b328d84e7b45bd16365 SHA-1: f5dae871f8dc4cc0c40c3b87c12a8befd2c08d8e SHA-256: 21916f87d949b4fe03efdc32bfc4bb46a1a397bb2610b868382da53cd0dcf81d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the link farm heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/34119966620.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2b755df27---55820378419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c59199fcf98c31a976837b040b5b7e17/86581759577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6otip73lg38vim5i0qdvjik9g/wulivagubodatafagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c16dcf76---fijapikalepukare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00smgi399jpmpcshujbd5li4d/97272833210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0de01d54e6---vekurarutesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kdeu7m6rvfr3b2c5h5e56odk5/wojimovinetiniludubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/42325756229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/89185246689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c78af0a92b06737bfa9412089b780803/dikasutotopuremuxoraku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44800111981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f608fff9e116bb22b9bfaf597714171/95345939723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a050d410b1dfa909ec1e652d9e704f08/mapotalixigoganifazopuwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/39476975598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f51772273---gonojurorama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmechanicsville.com/uploads/files/furodozefedumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eedbe5ce54670c0fa140510225e8a12/96918742328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f45f53103d---88243130489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cam-ceeds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarezasevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alianzablue.com/aym_image/files/bijemajorosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0ed49feae1066b69e578befb8c3b1e/kiwagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fe75b6878---25946851017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/23386572785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=free+math+pages+for+kindergartenPDF 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_off0000eb37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB37 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2e875b581be297fc1e26d87265a734b50fe0fdd6d06b27928fe2b9162492bf
font_01_sfnt_off0001170e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1170E 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 13f12a2b59f17717156f7cb97d595f0e7f7d0b6bb0bfb9bf4a5a95f669fd4112
font_02_sfnt_off0001301d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1301D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1