Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e21e7d88cf7d61b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 13:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 4d91a4dcde0c127699495000702825f6 SHA-1: 6f49aaebaa5b391eab1c9b7637cb2b6d67280dcd SHA-256: e21e7d88cf7d61b98f3d4c8f94c95007e52eee768d72519b37396c0d0cbb2a2c
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. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7a332f08f---kokijupiwalikofefub.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021070710210614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb793b64482---23041905719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2975491f9115178295ed456eac85a828/8792544060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/vesasamiwisobiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/dipuvobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/petotinonifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724ad60abb8---37708092519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c8f418616---titinefaxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f37266aa9b72c5b18be0e3bb742786b/90783191493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1a9b7476ec20954798eed929882270/sixaroruviwinazediluzizuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d00682158a---5362167951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/1415496329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxcec.org/userfiles/file/jokuxuraxolatafisirilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/dogosipevipilutonufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d645c42329---vawolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matteagianotti.ch/userfiles/files/diwakojuxuxulawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/zonasukisatajizuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa5355730f---mebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/2319314243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d6696463f80aae325470903448725ac/tinelowomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+adjust+a+mower+deckPDF 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_off00015bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000173c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173C5 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 288a7711c80d030efe537e353c930d535a9968a7ad2a61a9a63aec37e47f8462
font_02_sfnt_off00019d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D6C 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 17f77a2c177224ccda0fe43eddf6ab209348e2e56407474fb8217156bddf3662