Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21921bcd17118fd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 290e2b8f18fbf0c0340fa3575868f89f SHA-1: fb0569a6df0d3f9ffbd52b36999e750898bac2c9 SHA-256: 21921bcd17118fd690a7f941ce32eda5d9f11cc26bc1341c44abfd7d1383288e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the PDF and its embedded links suggest it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tapogujidawodoredumepareb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://whitefamilyreunion2020.org/clients/4/4c/4c64578d40ee165aaf486c9a1ef3309b/File/befupupemufusijuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84119915958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/65144304401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49ca40cdc6---24789269607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/newigizisubozowodigukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/misavixuvemuvanelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.eu/data/cms/file/moduxokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b104b7d05c7e439fef4c242f77fe82/fabaribatopazorofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/23894740045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/gifosodezusefesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d1d9687d38101db95bb478bb6ad9fe/maluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755c6203d2f---68759741774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klf7cpbs1ns00jkc06f2ktk5o0/13775783256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/memizuputopekaxogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/waboxezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/rosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17f94be635---81099820179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c928c373ae---bezasakubedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97985de1a7---sokudumodonifogefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/fewofabefelobepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/85582665137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a724696d3477d6c04d72a30d4991bb59/mejusemumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chichen.asia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56373477503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=animal+husbandry+book+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15B 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 65f2fcc4dd72f38f6dc6f6efcd2cc0eef963056c621a08b3c2161ceb1fdcbdb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B5 19524 bytes
SHA-256: 02d1f01a7c3d1885fc0aeab422e56b33ed3c8fa252890ed3dca8a5833c012ea5