Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d21def88b1ecf779…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-07-21 22:17:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6476ca2a272e625f91dc99e0832836ed SHA-1: a0310e91a01786c6fe83230216857e50734ea6c4 SHA-256: d21def88b1ecf779849aee752378ef86cecd50afd5ce4af036b84f16cf3d78a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://educhina.mn/editor/files/23657626740.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b17917ca5---41046000979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609841852ec8e---gupobixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9926fe8eb7---74514284459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/28056891102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160802d1f76bda---65382678861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0t8k1l3ek3hf0h03u6sa3oas6/nisuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1961.com/clients/6/6a/6a73a08bb68f643008adb5efbbb44e43/File/zoloviwukabep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/14530929458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8c88c2fcb---zafuriluzidaxekisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/jatubapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1678c07d3c---lopifakajexifitivujigojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/siwugizemepazude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/51629656285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quocteanviet.com/img-chamthi/files/54896595150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zodekanemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sazusaretekafigafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e1c1d872f---zesilurafanadovuvuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/medumunuganugenapefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ab3274bae---ruluwirijuwizako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt2j2veh23bsjkon1m79lm2pc4/xuretugamiverovin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/40896906049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd881d7c29bfa5bf7807ae4d6a8c821/60020491537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=atp+synthase+subunit+alphaPDF 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_off00011c77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C77 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 8cb6bee8a4d2e9a09652581c21a92c5d101db71fe114cf97898dd879181b8d7f
font_01_sfnt_off00014daf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DAF 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 7a803021f7a75bd3f3bfd04316072d47be54f5f1ba3eacd3f54f52984d3cbb56
font_02_sfnt_off00016533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16533 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1