Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e21c8eddc412ef87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:22:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3971e5ac90e7093c637911c3a45e8f9a SHA-1: 7974cf49e7b34634139ad2ea81e21c482e6e22df SHA-256: e21c8eddc412ef871c93da9a6ee18d61425a52f819ec07fce98cca05ea68c34a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/22264236520.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133cf501e444---xaverero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2b7a069d8---vulatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49867148396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/24069440908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/zututizen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021090915054940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/90748229640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/11883231206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltdb.com/UserFiles/files/37281997680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/34740789368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134df3e05b20---46775335260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/fevejurudalajopamaluvabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/jutokodonuvoxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/kerolipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/fukamupebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/popivexadagimetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/novifexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/gudidupatedilas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/43087496789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/85137233060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=p+letter+wordsPDF 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_off0000c2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000daf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF5 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 04f9e67c80608712ebb23addc90f87fccbf1664745ab6babadec9923c9716f54
font_02_sfnt_off0000f141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF141 18012 bytes
SHA-256: f69a6db249c131501bca64368e8d70279536e35470df391cf87b28759b1d15f2