Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21cf6dc68f3ea4f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 03:11:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: b8b70fd8186cec9ae53e09b1bc783448 SHA-1: c3949656f84f2e9e8da58d9736f668401ab2f0cc SHA-256: 21cf6dc68f3ea4f8769f23b13ebaa2a0d4c14f6327aa2f3a33ddb2214ed098fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these links for potentially malicious purposes, such as phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+ghost+train+arnold+ridley+script+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/wegejiwemibame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearmanhsreunion.org/clients/e/e1/e1754705b4c076d7cd520c5e9e79ed07/File/33798899204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/45442570060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i661mu8ecr1s02krv4g0fuc86/negebawosesidep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/dafomuxumugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/lewisutilosimufunajopimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotoma.it/userfiles/files/borujefivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11482745004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/vukiselelokupebarogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukaunited4d.vip/contents//files/fubaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63aac909c368574d55f2475288497ba0/3907584254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/10978006921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/34402004905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7616f4eb83a1c0fcb5071385a178a701/49346773654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125c0bda67b3---kabukakinetinogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166f9bbf41ec4bca273e77564116ba0e/87289079422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612de7d0a6288---67748544378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/46014512268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/70035693072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210716185658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31397788777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f60f589aa---32134882929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/62017257194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedevazipolave.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_off0000f607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF607 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 326c7525dbf28dd47e0ee6ad7785360a91906b87d817ef82b57abf97aac56027
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4C 20364 bytes
SHA-256: b4f34ae4eb9edbf77e1c214666a0a58aee0726b78b89a1eb6f805c284914a256
font_02_sfnt_off00014539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14539 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1