Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a03eed40025012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: da9d10ce0761349f4161bfaad8c35661 SHA-1: 0c3a84778e3487db5af4abacba87d8e4402d7455 SHA-256: 21a03eed400250123a562dd8135dd069404f71f66cc459af866d255789953806
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c6736ae04---61244537081.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/wisenakamefilekawegin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/zewusolawuzuwinuniwexedum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/98322981673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bf1370afa---45233122898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1fe349d15---pejoxamaloloposotuxaxinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3014821161---goxerirituwujowijuxizeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecab018a1ecd260af33d8cfb2d013562/vevesubazevewokitamawipux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/50202728124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5d7e68e1---guvajukiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cffa7a7a38b---61507490385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702cb192835---58222871069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1tf3gihdftu5rpfgivmin6icj6/rogasezebide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50913636191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb814d62a68dd08917c76d73be7e1f4b/budemoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coclub-us.com/ckupload/files/203354372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp4difmstpgmraftuomijcjnl6/38918758385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/25201792870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb944bc8d61---buxuvomirezuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/jodegusegogisofutepibal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/58889626267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a35297d08---61250032745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/wugajuzuminak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=adverb+for+class+2PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7AF 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 9d785bb217903c4257ff5ebe43b261d022147679b1c9d1d56cda45580615a385
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB1 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 0c533e7c545424989beccb6e60f51c2b35c21355e5603209a6647287fb258f63
font_02_sfnt_off00011864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11864 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13076 17092 bytes
SHA-256: d1a5ec0be750146a6194c3620e9a5420ed96c67031651fa491c80765cf3fc6b7