Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 021a495d351ec922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4a298aa12420f7a58eb5e82247ddac98 SHA-1: 9cd19ac4d484f5b2a03fbedb63f43f45ff66c13e SHA-256: 021a495d351ec92258e0b0222adc2ea33331abc967db8fbdb242c8d241f5467b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic further supports a phishing pretext.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161170807d0a93---suwotebutafofupizu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rltclassof1970.com/clients/8/8f/8ff9f19c840b982a6efda18ba8bb483c/File/mebumakatedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47232669288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3925207ff---vavibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160defde733c93---26512876596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///97273181237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607235919db9f---meniferegukuzawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/34367545349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/4844257811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mqjehtrirnj50e2s0o7u1o592/bilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/winagisulibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981a3478bb0---vubozonowajuzulazajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0b031a1e3a5b746b3a6bd9c220b149/vudadifepesulubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopamifidomos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102b3cb7d979---46250116507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/79672512089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/14291600030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43644b49a0---tipotajupuzufafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed07e946043352ebe8aec30363846bf9/lujetigumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/21741808518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/bemugofixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/69139372583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roanfamily.net/clients/0/01/01b24a6c100194bbc8678883f3cd4a53/File/82497975653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/98965662168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/biziwixujosebebagimipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=this+love+tab+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5E 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 95da34a94333112bad6abde5d0ae15cb34309929822dc7bf0e909be7e2e2a89d
font_01_sfnt_off00010757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10757 18808 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0ac902b51b7af48c6626a8daeed7186a18be7ef2d31461b545241444f381c2
font_02_sfnt_off00013881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13881 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1