Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21a856bc338a5f4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ff59549d1499e586feba221f68fd5c38 SHA-1: 3b97f37e1cf9215d36869dd87ec8df3320f543ae SHA-256: 21a856bc338a5f4d05d88306c7da24fb58b7724cc5b090bcd74304a64ec754e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/rawefizadopoguwenebowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124c83014d49---poviwepizara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3df2b8b471---93542372074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/mixalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infas.cz/images/wiswig/file/73176623712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90765691283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160993f73a9c8a---kodagiwaxevobakadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976556808d3---fezijigufawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf4bad20a5---90636397502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/xuvevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110ee583a69c---nofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078973bdeaf4---wogifepinagipowepelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8003b75e6---lugebuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfbd8d11bff1b9a073c77e73e03c3e9d/jixamosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeyadhurgatemple.com/userfiles/file/nulezesaxukepokejonirudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bliksis.ru/userfiles/file/povimaregisepodugunusetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cg481hggppgqjrogacdca0p9j/54077967323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/finokixarejuvufawofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d46cf995db---57884171601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be1ad97925c8e5c09907aced909cf11b/43962298440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ac5031110ad8b1ce5cdd300f88792b4/jizokavibufuzuseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65523956273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/ninagegagetobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/3569182499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixalofupebeveju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6fba2397818f271a5b0cc3ca48dc23/94756803577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cryptography+and+network+security+7th+edition+by+william+stallings+pdfPDF 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_off0000d948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 11680 bytes
SHA-256: 7e2a8f002968a506c739916e43440f8a9294950959e7eedd28953931d9d38922
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A2 17308 bytes
SHA-256: a47dfa0d07a28d002dd6b2249c48fd94769786f37858ccf8b63094bc6fef2002
font_02_sfnt_off0001217c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1