Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21e77cd112207c58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 12:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b1f6a10543be45a0aae377269ccfc823 SHA-1: e330cea93817e2c083fe5ddf401d0cab740d0638 SHA-256: 21e77cd112207c582cfebede665e28c750ada7536bc6e89b9deaca48b3401927
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file has been identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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 https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3386e7382922b84300aeb0ee7cffd9/sojusizi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/mojujemuporodonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcada313ff3---86260898343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894b343f7bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj3jmfsluutclhodjm8uud3hms/26451779705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbca96a0ac---60793249188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/zetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd756aa330d---xuzotunimijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b12c4cea3---36877438246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apttv8ur326h4ahja94k92uk3k/82561229942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/kotafunenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b8384bcd5---70625977771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b24d075d644225cab373826d1ddb5bb/felasopuwonuwufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074103496922---64660083606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf750956344c001c03da2ad0412c8ea/nonumuvoripimatekuvuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25da20facb9987751c7c17377db15937/52570802626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823a9697483---77630762859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b2cd73143---35337616414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5673b66964890569c174d2d8085ae2e5/44715001057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782a1f2380323b78ffecb71bb3152e17/24625334127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075acd994f4c---16645893903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=heavy+thunder+and+lightning+soundsPDF 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_off0000bd0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0D 15736 bytes
SHA-256: 22efaf07ed2ab8630ae54f81180c7429a562d75192d4f529450569808bf4014a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C4 10800 bytes
SHA-256: f093fe41b2029d7a373d1c839734390081ae97b3508d6298a0b68ba4aab7738f
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1