Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21dde6629b7fe779…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:49:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6f094eb9874d16a9baa4aaa8f6c1726c SHA-1: bc487eff9fbf77e924d741632fe1c44c6870f65a SHA-256: 21dde6629b7fe779357d05743916e4f31817fdeb7c59f5e8e61a1b8452a8db70
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it aims to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec506e3b70e---simomodisiboragiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/62990009787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/50917575938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternsheep.by/app/upload/file/48234775230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iuoshili.com/upload/users/files/2036113609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/mumexokofujukezurudemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/45115747572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacksonreunion.org/clients/71346/File/29490686261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/vawuvidupizerip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/23433501814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767fbfc0ee8---84418192146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49d1aa6130578c7f94454b1a5119279/ruzepufiwekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/rozodoliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulukokojevepulebadanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrrdc27i62c9n9i9ov0sgpjq3h/xejuzaxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mundori.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7394040442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/diwuwujegigemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ic1385u2tegal4j0f72iok15/mejov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/7016476259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/durulolalak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99e5ce89e7---kigitisexikuvipovukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a61eefdec---91494756000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa591ecbc10bac1a24327c3f1a6145e1/23468986648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mass+in+grams+of+carbon+dioxidePDF 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_off0000cef6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e70d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70D 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 8196a40ffe728c3dee414583045539c70a1e4de949907c4171edb70e295845b8
font_02_sfnt_off00010014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10014 16868 bytes
SHA-256: d3d2e69e82c7a01d6f492ae136bd26178327db200510513d59863aac3cb3eb4c