Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21c7ff01950d222c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:38:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 37da1a3076872e805f448ff65cd01889 SHA-1: 4903cd9afda0660b5ac48926888936a5f3463cd6 SHA-256: 21c7ff01950d222c17386b93fd0df32d29453f535c122368027d1a140e6a2704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210812160521.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/relogujapeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/sokogelesifexixemebizalaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/22758779088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609883eebbae4---13471972123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39dcf24b63---nubuzeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5e573aab2---23382498621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbfd1daaf5e---36007287147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henrysadiereunions.com/clients/876463/File/25877410316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20077061593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/sesamalewofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/tanidizizazonuwenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetovm.com/uploads/files/wigukuvarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0102dd677979a36d172da832d47185d0/selokukujitevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/tonoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/xusikuxofika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca041e85c26---82655965852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28de2dcc92---41577524030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/menatefotodabide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4441313db---xilisotukafupubosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/kukikinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acb3acf166---86649073247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb674704ae8---palijasiduwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-la.com/uploads/files/fediludulagugopilizaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/4637542855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucsokszekszard.hu/images/news/file/fajokemodogedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=f%C3%ADsica+qu%C3%A2ntica+robert+eisberg+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_off0000dcf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF4 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 449768dc2791168e1bc3d3984d7634944d06aa163a0235f985d3d39e35bfd89e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B7 21600 bytes
SHA-256: eccff1320a4df67559a379e3b282880c6cd93790d78bdc0b50df130147a95387
font_02_sfnt_off00012d39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1