Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a01e7bb84b311e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 609c09a92a331cb0db23aa08b37653e0 SHA-1: fdfa19a679966b4eaaf28eff6a7adb591ff64b9b SHA-256: 21a01e7bb84b311e3a1eafaf8c0529b6cebab72c8ffdb44026e9960a71e8ac92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=esther+baxter+and+bow+wow
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed134c0874cf40abe2e55f155bcb4eda/kozutewe.pdf
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/74782136786.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608272caeedfc---49207428855.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fffdab7f9d---renapasaleledurasobazamiw.pdf
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/38893034254.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe5eb5aaa0---kitaretaxapekonomol.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5229810e98---96569934074.pdf
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/20628053010.pdf
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/63874168350.pdf
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/96761414971.pdf
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/40516290725.pdf
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/gafutekijovapumipinute.pdf
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/29400337914.pdf
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/manuvegikokutarajodiku.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf9b1c78fa---71921664622.pdf
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/govoponisip.pdf
    • http://chono.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/91964671375.pdf
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8697cecd3c8cb1e5427d001c9ff1a5/36156221287.pdf
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37590669385.pdf
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/rolinubilojovosa.pdf
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f352fa2171---gikabavojozukupoxujazaki.pdf
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/48225500695.pdf
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/11227877870.pdf
    • 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_off0000e6a7.bin
9cfcfdddcd4adc24245f7d643b10907b83e32b1901bf0a53c2d975ef31edc432
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A7 10516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116b3.bin
6dfbb927fe59de397c7d44ef7c909b222e2f793cbc55ada051d6595bc7d59c4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B3 18148 bytes