Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21d56fa77cc6592f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 16:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5409c934a25766b16e950f1085ca447e SHA-1: 2d316f623cd697902cabeef6edce5e76a34d0bf3 SHA-256: 21d56fa77cc6592f0ca9013157d7f6479e90fcc4119ff56d8a04ac0096303bb5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bellsazshihtzu.com/clients/878694/File/jidakerulenazon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078370bbf9b5---36119201494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702e1d89e8a---rumadobaraxenozivipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b010368fcc9---40574042886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/479bcd1919ce1286f15b37ad3850dcc8/jasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b348e4f11---fowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/64605684383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f002afcaa51b3cb1a4b5d4d52b27162/rubesitonabowolesopubapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2d59ebc74d1df4aaab9d850da9f876/weriredaxugagexan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/wifabiribawuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6e357425b3767a5ff887214107da08/71847440707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb5cddee47---83989701045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///9591008360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vajolirajawejovisep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b9fd3cd0580da8a651de55978f6117/58343952417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/zijulifafobumema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/viliwesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/sisakilagilafibumabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/28817171415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d40a64cc3---33238166972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25639624793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/regotibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/87029745852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5918d1a4d8ff4fcb550ec8106609983/5593312008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+guide+for+7th+standardPDF 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_off0000d883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD883 16728 bytes
SHA-256: 06a6851066e7cfe852d8252fc1d5cb300ace17c9a0e6c73f0347537f6b683236
font_01_sfnt_off00010450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10450 10912 bytes
SHA-256: b5e502000303a6bceab015ac4dee7c874d76c9f0a5df67a1b7b41ddd16e62eda
font_02_sfnt_off00011d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1