Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21f7314945712842…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:23:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 761e063c2062fb641982f4c2f83ea58f SHA-1: e27ef35be2713952608593708f323aed9ca64f4e SHA-256: 21f731494571284224f37196c53ea5f8831ef862d9e577b981fd4d2fef7608ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=forestry+notes+for+css+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eecce99cf---89777039915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0da30628b---27408362545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/xesajita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b88pic4besggca8786qfsc7uco/59269874851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd20871885eaaf93649dacb7825e7ea6/zowamobimixinumafujuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c49557b0f759093bc01dcadbc62276/35223569456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ljlconst.com/admin/images/file/zepogufesomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charming-dc.com/uploads//files/202108071117111210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a826fc90e90---kupexuvof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/xumujamepezumogetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_6259D08DF5DACC8D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58de1b2ac086b784c619fd6b0868bef6/41690348160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/sumofopego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/zazezirenomuwasuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a555a2df4---88286703689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a2ad88e3---66213399804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/se39ni7fuacro2tgm0vngcc094/vimuwuredusozanenegazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anpharma.net/upload/files/21474571014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c672a3c3f48---15794482353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9tr67ast1msrp1lj1beq8m15c/wuxawawojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1628662359_40bbc6b81f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/65763949391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/23883580376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/neganego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ethqpgebqdfvj2h7arc6saed7m/76723135315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e17b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17B 20896 bytes
SHA-256: f1aec2797b0776277aa75873f2ece5ccec149f339af2262039df5ffefd88f8af
font_01_sfnt_off0001172e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1172E 10404 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2933098348c5a5a1371f9737334c633c7dcfe4ed7c92efec7fcc27948689fc
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1