Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21e29aad2804ec41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:28:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d7ab54228a9d0e3fe4550214dbf87d2b SHA-1: 43802fc0ce4a881e5cfc6b43b2e295d4670d1e5b SHA-256: 21e29aad2804ec4126975f8fd06bec5f685ec8f81b5f51b1ca0e1ec7ed817c06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the high-risk heuristics indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210826_A1A9BED916F446F2.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/rubudafezowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021080210551513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasz-pap.hu/UserFiles/file/71556504401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/widefudokojolujirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ergunaygoren.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755c4926613---fibeguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovavatijifimefitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/bamitusixokuxinuwilesafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73380525848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/pigutitameditozusatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deeb55db236---lememasuwejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koveteperuxatuvamuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maivietnamesecotati.com/uploads/files/fazasugomaluropejerimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743389f729---50272432102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2688c81a596f2019cd26e6a887681c2c/50443399236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/juzugoniwemedijegabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc5a45f499---45651537889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoekidsworld.com/userfiles/file/44147527492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/54501528737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070b880be79844fee82417d4b43b793f/10041030900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/lijupotewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/25781654944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f63d7b6fd---batikefevajiviwadizaluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9feb888a7a---64286496599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=behind+her+eyes+novel+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8D6 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bbfa03e15455fd35b566a5643e3e4f4f32f617390f01843fc1ffffc041632114
font_01_sfnt_off0000e20c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA23 10568 bytes
SHA-256: c0b53dc53f97f0bcd153139caececeb940cab11a32774e93295266b0a9f11b64