Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21d16caf36452daf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:43:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 50d93523481f71a6112193faf417e168 SHA-1: 9d1fb7898011d385d66e5c553d541f84fda730af SHA-256: 21d16caf36452daf6e516ca4a65bcc52e7c6c7b91e920d41aeff9aa38c5a5711
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/67739496269.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://yulintimber.cn/d/files/pexumupadep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7469403395d4887e5ad1f40f67cdab2b/vonusikekiwelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/99468317551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084774330f5b---41454575657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/supalevore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/34936842107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60197627594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3djbt2itofg1lsf044uq964r7/36835496041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/18763444049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97fdd6bf1d4c0e8f6e6696008a7993b/43215795835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/98191567910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/wujiwobadiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092322a7491b---gifupupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosedidite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/bobupadofaxufenatowez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbba1eb3946e768cff63c96037d0960/kimelevipugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210625_073058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5a625b29a---retexokobiwuduraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22e326714bfb55fa9e88af3a86af23f/6321730220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58066daba6---kubatoguwifiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qj28gpbrmmdasdgbad6b2hn2o0/palokekoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbh7tungckd2l3hljal8rsua12/51438154765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/desoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=highest+paying+forensic+jobsPDF 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_off0000f912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF912 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 41db60971929756c6877ca50a0e4d734961225484ff54ad6327232c0c7ae7ebb
font_01_sfnt_off000112a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A3 16968 bytes
SHA-256: f43c41dc4be6e94e51c47649702a4b307a4fe21cdadcf1b43f21a407d5a57f9f
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1