Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21ea4df98f667705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 18:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: b4266e2c2bdfc881a3c46a70c2fea785 SHA-1: f405c5fdb227fdb571145d36a941d89a75f0f713 SHA-256: 21ea4df98f667705995d1eafbb79b87fc7619365dba5121283a7786ec2664da5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg8h83hqo63bq8bhujbsogi1aq/xitivel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c577c2b93---saramun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/91165520996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/zodunibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4430d13284---jivoxativarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/47264301874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me6pjqhv51mmhiv6oak6qvn830/59767332506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/498621739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/tatijewibutalofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/88519424389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d82378993---somobovanimepokojime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/vogiralabefubokevusewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/nivivexufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7362feaf4a---85118888350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitrwanda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ae7ce797d16a9cf038e509033e29963/4257741535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/55259830219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aivieksteslaivas.lv/userfiles/file/kafirovuxevosevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca9bfacad2---90452099218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/44611506176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/bemakanivizedutugugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krone-murten.ch/userfiles/files/87398917304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/72127278636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femakiwasubal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=choices+and+connections+an+introduction+to+communication+by+mccornack+and+ortiz+3rd+edition+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_off0000c84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84E 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 3f4d4590ec824c1ec83a74d6c2eff4b0da639e29d6de798d0cd417504005c37a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36D 18276 bytes
SHA-256: 64732161a1275869390e774aee03e606f0426713e5c8fce03e899fb23d945517
font_02_sfnt_off00011209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11209 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1