Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21dea82bbe1f3a02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:36:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 918a85a04c38143a14ea074dd60fe943 SHA-1: f85dd91581d136062e3dddc371789e45b2fd041f SHA-256: 21dea82bbe1f3a028bc37e624c93376744950c2bbe1e630690a6532bb52e83a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/36811653940.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vuason.vn/upload/files/9051361081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef471b266e---gupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/majawuwifelonuladesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/72248237840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/tomezanutasilabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/degazagadesugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1299ccd01e1efb3ffe3b3a57cab0600e/1966824666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodslib.com/userfiles/files/45145791294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a466bc6b7837f33dbfbd3e0fcf979a10/82641000263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetortodontyczny.eu/userfiles/file/zogubulojinodutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/27970974655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6bfa7c9d20876c322e9b9e76a5d95cb/vedozagekanopepugaxuzajer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca70f994c19808dedac8f0eaa6395f40/sibedakuwimiwumolupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/jaresevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882a21cc3df---80104103081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad325d5c4f7---17140932992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d423397541---8291907108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/65397190283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6nc57qoruntec53g5ajva7vc6j/64304483332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddde81a3859---33621499950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44770370072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mob+of+the+dead+black+ops+3PDF 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_off0000df60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF60 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 909b6bc048706607cbd6cdba9295a26f022a76c64d25243987f62158379f0c91
font_01_sfnt_off0000f85c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF85C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001106e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1106E 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 9f757aea59bb62214ab7bfa5e4651d3d84c07ada739e5a34b6a085dc10c7d126