Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 321a1464e84ac5d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a9673bdb3cb7164c3afca73911bf4ed SHA-1: ba86495b6761dff71267918c7ac4be47b5036cd9 SHA-256: 321a1464e84ac5d501c3486903188fb3ee3b21de09f6285f08d0b53d7ab79e72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of exploit-related heuristics indicates it likely attempts to exploit a PDF vulnerability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7c1a64952cde9c130d5aa943852df85/fekor.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f17b47b72e---24307613601.pdf
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/73941886.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdgfjg0m1qupteal84564n3jat/tenekapuvadimudamotavovu.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884e914cbff---bogerilovawogig.pdf
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/gadefetoxidowazezuf.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ht5622vh1rnrbg372afoajk09/79408502886.pdf
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/56169562082.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ngirlcso28djo9nf5877fvaks/niwikolinomafulatolajomo.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35acdf434aa5c2cafaacdce785d2a2ac/3188144900.pdf
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a0dd04530ef4937f6e722a21ff43ff/689683151.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccab205b77---92338423286.pdf
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/vutijolavusuduno.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cc72dee8ba9865124ed65e321b1077c/zelejikakujijepojaz.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caedbd2d98---somodabawofabepeb.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8r79pd1e3p0bf6727c6m2mq5m0/43743962908.pdf
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/14773244629.pdf
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/velaviretelolumivubojudu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+an+html+file+as+a+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e49f.bin
02b3fb03d93a479b149047b05363b674c93e4920a6b80f559867feb4f4c88527
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49F 16948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000110d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128ee.bin
8ce46bcd568e7b2b403ef1771b130ea2518459e87e55745df24fa8d5ceb51b46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128EE 10808 bytes