Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21ad557e9ccfa899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:50:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9ceb4c6f1943740f56277695b366718f SHA-1: 93945e55f2087a7bd121b4d723c3abf00ba5ac12 SHA-256: 21ad557e9ccfa899f1b1c2f5cab50ed31270772e71494e7132960f7fc668c549
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70be25c5240d2e8b939c7cd654127cc0/pesudibejeledonorem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608195b90e215---98106594984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f22d1a4b2---92569917824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8af85e3631428b54de4d9f9c887c47fd/pavuribiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf395043998---58811992479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a744fa8223d---96687576027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/baxokegutufugowivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/63558350027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/bewoxojejijizikotakaburog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e038832394ff48309635789f32fd142/lizonevafupixela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20217172015195453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/52791769216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/97424007470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1u1ufal6i8ep34j12j338p5ab/vudaguluwujovinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/vunivopajujinuxofamofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5adcc96fc2e75082c405d3146171df83/83629258307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cailux.lu/userfiles/files/7968195072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/kobavitadadizotakewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.se/upload/varunujadoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+ret%C3%B3rica+oratoria+y+liderazgo+democr%C3%A1tico+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_off0000d9c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D3 19628 bytes
SHA-256: ed9557ee5d2da072967a76d1bf27c865862061cf3ba11f0ef3f110c6d47c64c4
font_02_sfnt_off00012389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12389 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc2c12b6ffb8645e5c84c41db3270a2abe7462b227cf00563f567082698e4ba