Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21c09f26003758d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 08:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 80752f86cc322eb47337a54c82ca918a SHA-1: 2567be8d894f47f3fb7cda94391f092c5011d997 SHA-256: 21c09f26003758d76242cb8562035d27077518094e56149f314aaa7ac22808ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+investir+com+pouco+dinheiro+come%C3%A7ando+do+absoluto+zero PDF link annotation
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b091b07b3b6---tivivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/noxikedubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/56038248680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333b328bb003fda396ae41ce466028da/gixafoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59766175f0a33e0793f94fabf6a062a9/44883185983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/54509531968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/vexenufotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likebarcode.com/image/files/20210731_052220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa610b76d168688461aeef97454dee17/wepaxaweteroxibolexoxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/pomebisedavadisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/setaxafori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/daveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcd7fbdc2d---93370313524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107cbc3693c4---pevumit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89b26c545e---nemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/12438968583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/laruzewinuvifazazowifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/78410209125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16075864697e9f---69660235068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/844ddd65d93080f01d4117709377eed9/70974358002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f59f15367705c9b65a5220bd62fbf03e/temegopijofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948809a7c47---nebopapemifabaxafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/11573735265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/wumikupimolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e869.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE869 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 229088677a269f4b9f8f62390a871763cb63ab892bbaad688502309d4f0da1a0
font_02_sfnt_off00010286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10286 18172 bytes
SHA-256: a5e765b391ebcdaf926e2b5e6f35e2dcbb88a1e2642c063c3bc393ec83bc691c