Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c21aa14582872b84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:22:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 05a415486112f5f17477d19609ff2eed SHA-1: cd69b125c42cc6424a0a3d9f3877239856f1673a SHA-256: c21aa14582872b8441929e0574081c68a2b1b744b77c5039d8e46f924467b99c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. This suggests the PDF is designed to act as a lure, redirecting users through a link farm to a malicious destination, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/11855844941.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10801928285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/manuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c5eea473f---vufawomisatitexeroniwaxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109082351274008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18379538703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/nekogujebarujaruwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fef49af02c---dodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/75409284368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/14628549274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/46475415121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425539ba3372c44e4f341751704d6178/magiguvudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138dd8ca494b---98632053297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/futefivijodiwaliwafuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/24414579015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/tedujekema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/sirubazolededidetubekasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dbca58ef75ade5709b4d42c219ed31/mobotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41463627860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxodakazozujagurefutuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/nofekilaxexowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoannalisatinelli.it/userfiles/files/rarozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/xovedililibewimasifupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cast+from+android+to+androidPDF 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_off0000e9d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D9 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 02a1757dc748fcb75ad3afa005a7111325648159f37d5d7c4af57e2a83cda750
font_01_sfnt_off00010142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10142 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11954 18952 bytes
SHA-256: e6a8296ebd93d695e9ccaa9005a102854c5b1ec29be19572b9a4a091b274cfc1