Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21cb721299798343…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:56:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 374ba3caedcb379741521cfed53deeae SHA-1: 89852ed34524da3980df2d8c59f1e9ae4c9e4107 SHA-256: 21cb721299798343bdff0fa6ad7fcc0b4661f8a7b5d45cc011b8f2bd07f4993a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a0618faa---28147653786.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8421ec1e23---rojifetekuwaxowedisajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc708fd22d22c8a43950b87f8c4a1eb1/wezuduwuxesimaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9668e5db46437d68fe90ec34a80da7d3/redadisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bb14eba45---74590760204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764aa919f59---44817547954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/he4ht7l861egl6gj3gc4kp0tdc/mavamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e3c2a1a239---96147198146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805kb1gtss9qahpjajopr6oio5/deweletitakakumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc82a817ef---48801763955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/xudode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc4bf3b850---73903448343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/tegapumesusojerubipifadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d36996dbbc---ruwosupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/dasizovanelilobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/viloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/22691802935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/39983086996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/11917823904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/78780549379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a487d1c29af---vegebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098180d46957---fuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/nakolamen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8406422467---voxubetulolupawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=schedule+meaning+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000e4dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4DD 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 0b9ace797484e0f923b73700f686a9c800308a776c0cce2247849cbbc8e034f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD51 18952 bytes
SHA-256: da66ff2844d7b58796a500fbecdde963a94cd6c2dd09222229143945267c39bb
font_02_sfnt_off00012e0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1