Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a22e2cf7e0c081…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f5b1e46f18d9fe08dcd9f98fdd0be55f SHA-1: 8a5197a41d6575750d656e06b5f14324150a063f SHA-256: 21a22e2cf7e0c081cd60e8251b85362b8eb9e50b396d6ab4e65f6b1427895106
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, including one using a raw IP address and others hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://kopari.hu/files/file/gobubovixabe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/4443029963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/zapogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d527a77b5d---90648175625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/20273480139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/73338231004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pgbbgtjps61ia40iembhifr4u/subatakubizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e13c4ae91ece99368653b831ec1659ac/1229667346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4b2995608---sanepozatexatewikikawelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/tusasojubovuwera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63b1233e90---nuramazekapefikivuwireso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tekkoo.net/images/library/File/mokumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6f1aa5668992efb3374bd3cfabb027/pinunumufugokuxazazug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7b5d47794---27953244328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086317a13879---zetuxuliwamejazuzesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/19521152360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085625023b1e---78332674436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/92917921404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a7ae6d6d---3300452338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/31990295181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdc8cb66a0---zojutigirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/96637460642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebecd1968c---gusumazuxun.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://asiabiru.com/contents//files/gisuviwizuzusefolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=tempted+the+great+seducerPDF 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_off0000d64d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64D 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 6a869d1c4202bd0127a1b987a75a944387a31ec0bcb4d47be75e98eb3ab95727
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A2 25388 bytes
SHA-256: c0766402cbe5304ef497db41407363cbed53e5dcae95883f77ec090c0e276b05
font_03_sfnt_off00013e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E58 2856 bytes
SHA-256: bfddfbdd377cc6e3e680621c1e935c6944adbeb6460ee9f190dadd2a1811866e