Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d21fb17ea5db830c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-10-07 03:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 054bc8b58761e6c9d0a4ebd15eb530a0 SHA-1: 17cff57acbb8b973fa8e12a14034061f17edbc62 SHA-256: d21fb17ea5db830cadd99250a901c641cf3c412580e62e0fb1c960904d570c7a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of embedded JavaScript and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://yurisolomko.com/userfiles/file/vitizezopanitewi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ed2269c94---87666412682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/86812661623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordtmann.beckbauer.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakidupedibanepilaxisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210918_195743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/89721712319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/19645130843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/nasifedegomulavekebisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613256d37f9ee---gonaxuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobath.com/app/webroot/img/files/60864711670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/8280667177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/73890327450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/birezovomejebaxenolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/5025393947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4d58da0cb---mujofigufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156cf306e5dd---18079854584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/14459241126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongqinghaohong.com/upload/files/93428214138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotoippc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36977679692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4113934ba614e523ba7b0abb3217d7/waliwufenosadiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416463dbf7b---vivukobumetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rongoldmanlaw.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sijarawulitiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orenprom.com/img/account/file/nuxenigewalitikezasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=eye+puzzles+with+answersPDF 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_off0000e8f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10107 19800 bytes
SHA-256: ea5399fd51414fc6411492e4a0b883d3e662162cb232561d5acc315d4e29b65a
font_02_sfnt_off0001345b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1345B 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 24e7f9ace2f14c62d4b509c3eaa8c89fbc71b52cf67dcaa82c9644169db71503