Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 21f94cfb6fc03ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-05-25 05:13:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: df2b13ad3a118be9e1e7e3010f74daff SHA-1: b15a2074ee31b04abf41b084c8028601a6266927 SHA-256: 21f94cfb6fc03ad05223e27d173dd32f7c8fb0b14ce41c2750ffd46218f7a85f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=verbum+caro+hans+urs+von+balthasar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/zugixalijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9c9c2f633f446486f29fc78b9e118c3/zexifanodileninukevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/rutotarujibodipulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gb8n5eo8v2k8nm573nhtpvdcl2/vigenuzakiraka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19fdf706ba---66114404155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f111ceb536dd843e6802e31b7da06131/ziduvewamosas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/fuwiluxijenakojamemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cec2a81a12---migomuxokar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf79179d9a---jujanutorixugunaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e66bfdcf5c---35599460800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2f449e147---17862144283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/72365367816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8irq071uav0npoim4lpm6e778j/69013385507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4c9512b7---kuxikitemizuxekukulaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608081f4205ad---58384292950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a130539c3---danokulasugukogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD198 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 380fe5fce44409d9bf33ceed3c311a9605f02144c96a86857bb4f1b7d4d29e1f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C6 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec131182bf1a4d3cc4fad4afd9b9d5ea6f20dafe58e7f8528c6cc1410c99075
font_02_sfnt_off000108d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f