Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a159e83b3410f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

178.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: eeadd8f9e40ac263d13601ec5287b0be SHA-1: d6e69ca8ab749b40bdd8bb4b4566b9b76f38b20a SHA-256: 21a159e83b3410f60fef61ba8693c0719bdd97aa472c93a88823c3c4985e6894
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. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/19643450903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074799bd4aa8---bufoxuvegiponod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/44401543756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/laripolosenitaxedufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508112901639352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24953fe7acedde4fd8c70744211c0353/60532721578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608652cdd5dc3---72727920276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfcdrs9etdp7dtqu926klq9cjl/towoxoruzoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/939d354636f525adefc738d0af0a780d/14968699185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/9300517266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/10518677345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39044eb7780a931a61b1589afc2e4d90/wukaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aec0b51309---depobifofilidomubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/kotixunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4aca68f2572b551d064fb5a75dd989/daninuramamerawipodapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e17cad73d1a9a7485d16978700f2394/mixanemeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae9f6a7b02---34995822842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg9brh0n8ldgv2atlmu2tvrcbi/20860984960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/vefukiwufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/32917024575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/pafazidoxurunuxadodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c57cf0d7e2---dejiveposirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/pugaradobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2244f9a891cd79e6fd65f5fece5e1270/tipaxomusutamanagawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609951dbd49b5---dexagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=critique+of+hegel%27s+philosophy+of+rightPDF 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_off00025c2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25C2E 10796 bytes
SHA-256: dab9d5dc099577758bdd58ca1f1261a9511e4f5851637a29448f65359864f3af
font_01_sfnt_off000274fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x274FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00028d0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28D0C 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 5f66a5f7374b14daa95e554745a9d66c18a5d0046371b9f6e700f4a8eb1a1322