Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21be5cffd7e8174b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 741532b89f21fc7626b96bab4e7fd5b7 SHA-1: 5167a8500cb9c8009a703e076abe00c0508247f9 SHA-256: 21be5cffd7e8174b48abb862dc0a73255896f2b19493d9296f4194977e152230
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct user-facing content, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://samtekelektrik.com/files/rirebis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37907828699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/40141998631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/ruwafuneterofetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supopedelujimefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c569566ada9---36494604658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/lapuwawaniwulamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66433724404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f0f995f75---37443366035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f71dc1e027---34624481807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/satujowofezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpht5apsm6t28cmqkd1jo34iu4/jalofove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/90209868223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinko-tw.com/UserFiles/file/16293414756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c29a591e93258a8e6f4adabe58ad65cf/gesotaninodatupejavalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4167045226---27483096540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/sijogikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4b801c6d2---29104524105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/38361076697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/rupefidejavijolukuresokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/99775423831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testsitehq.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/47209337229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc94170464---nafomojakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekaplast.site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57948715084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a3fe6d3db---pibukofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/lukidelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipus4sc830uj0njjnsovnq7vjo/83286005795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=corel+draw+x7+activation+code+list+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_off0000eea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA5 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4547d660af752383b69150c5ab8e9eab4b277a6bce9505442af43945208f07
font_01_sfnt_off0001084c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084C 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 5aef18de6ff69b1ce217a3e1825218786f746c90427d9397e9ea06de339036ef
font_02_sfnt_off0001374a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1374A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1