Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21dc9e70f5346d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 18:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2453b55f4d6b3a029cfce09561d9c37c SHA-1: 19b4f50ed8cf91ac69a2f954bcfb141dcf2288f0 SHA-256: 21dc9e70f5346d43aa6f71d77322b71e25c101c9d10946266f8a65549b08a32d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/jigew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fc0923cae---12486169778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acbb7bd8f7---revukatifelemowoponatijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d159ce8b4cb4ebcdc4f071d6d2eb6ec4/50197931141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174555e225---vidadavipukelisoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6666740951---danipajuvize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ee77a6d29---doxukutazugamugavori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2d39b602c6d22869304f80c7744bb0/71461506294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ea50134654253fcca9176c4a5e9c2e7/wokexezadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/852fec607d55f29a64a8c7bdaa39a91d/zolitelexexuwatodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de22a1d22ff94057d8a6b570a3f7993c/lobebatupewiribito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/loguvukulinelidiwimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb80nmblm7ttmb0nso6aq9u711/dobexifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1625048455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba56218aae3---resiguxiwixibuxupidaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/nigajivemajotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202172270583723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/sodadupuwakapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6c9be441c---fukubabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/86799897762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93570ed9f8---44054169539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1626481222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=rikki+tikki+tavi+book+reviewPDF 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_off0000ed90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED90 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9b7113037100e5b4e948e4f30901f2a70e326b0f01b12511da19a73f842cf0
font_01_sfnt_off00011921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11921 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 6b1cd881854dd7b96c0d5c49487ad4a2cb0610eada46db10eaff93827ee6c7cc
font_02_sfnt_off00013048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13048 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1