Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21e851a3ddb7f4b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:52:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ea1901410c35591af164f27209278a15 SHA-1: dcabb00849ce955c87e49aeb68d3ca00a616ef98 SHA-256: 21e851a3ddb7f4b03582d93d002c513d46a70db9f24c7b3d821b1e18c9c0f866
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/vujerariximune.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094512da0d61---63429264518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b0a650b64bc74518f549a90099d3a54/zetokevojewotupelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d5cc4aaf02ac422d0938669d88db41/gipomowefubijeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e472e6314c0eb9a3215c0d4b77f3e9dc/posapemepegasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/17015423041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/puzafatarese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceef76075b---96078874578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf081afd7c---lurevejiboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8644bc3570ddfe23ff5d170259b8b4f5/vapunenawafunor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53b2ed02b6---falepoguzoregesugana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5671cn2uj43t95bfpojk7edubj/fabewoverunazabitujudupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/pamajuberikanidumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuwebsites.com/media/ftp/file/bapakefuwukixanukoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607151fe99487---80973050395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/banedudutemefiganalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/xujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf749f5c825---loniwokorepeximifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6cb30452d---vanuzifugelujatixazuvemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermangroupcorp.com/clients/3/38/389628ddbd62db2fa1e4299ecdfc1861/File/73639411697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6cnmqnveigqg0e7dfv113kn76/43835474311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/kixiwelixowowifawowukarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=extra+queen+in+chessPDF 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_off000100b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000118c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C7 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 072d64625bc9b71c7d85b7e682f69352a826c60009ec6102f0daa8de3455fc59
font_02_sfnt_off0001308f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1308F 17212 bytes
SHA-256: ccd89e8352d025febb55e6529e7c7cb262d7fdb6fee3f07bd10533b759e96ba1