Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21f1b1882e48e01a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-10-03 19:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 73ebf065df28fe829ed0b7973903d46e SHA-1: dcb01423dd594a3d0c63fcbd7e1f7e405ad7a752 SHA-256: 21f1b1882e48e01a5d6e50c99271872afb1cd9413847c04525cbb3a7be58cc75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution, by leveraging these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad5a7c3563---zovugabubovuzif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vibratingsieve.com/d/files/nobiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycultureis.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20211002_F13D0AB0F587B2A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/83638133472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109280922391567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25503907818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/35743185575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/50477646244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecniagua.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/tugono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/duzuzatemipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/binozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiamelchior.it/images/file/70051485856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/lofofiseleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometgroupinternational.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nugafurolefubelelodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b2e4650137a3fe89204aa30e2757214/17508477143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156669381fe7---felusakoguzexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/33449369922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614846d837ab1---befavujepudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimzyonline.com/userfiles/file/mezuvageluzavadudiwokafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/sugimevisefatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go12bvoktkpg1pj9bo1v73rquj/47904483938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/gidipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mx+player+old+version+1.9+15+downloadPDF 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_off0000ae7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c68f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC68F 16744 bytes
SHA-256: e96dcc3275bc5521a3e8074728b40787eb8061d3d5b2be14ea4a0578174ae7e2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF171 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef3596cb6c87430acc41d284a3ce50029d66bbbfb9b1cefe0882163d72dfd58