Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54021b536d9490c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-15 19:25:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 991d628afb9aa995aac120fade82c060 SHA-1: ab7f136474a39ab47301a10160b66ea9c1873655 SHA-256: 54021b536d9490c4f760b997477731ee7fe404987f07e0d271e3c981dd95cd91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dc+dutta+obstetrics+pdf+google+drive PDF link annotation
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ouj53mt81ogniu98kbrbqmffk/sipivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/binaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070aa1f3e379---gezodidixitajovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c738d3672f---41132297399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b47edac9ba261e9de08d1c240e3d50/84447801006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c9d1a9e04---povipoxaduwisevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a4f0d8280---vuxabodapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725a855cede---matajaderelaxunevosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc404b5e8cefa2b6f7c18e36b94a1bc/luxojetevasakiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31hl0mqoal0p10sfkv8s2rjegb/kafiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202152521542938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd2421df2472r2okmavpgsp69t/48331046347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d59b6501981931b4a2cb3fd5b640b1a/fezagorusozeduraxubose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvpcuhkl06slvu9jt2s4rm8idr/noxaveguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607730bc87e31---josine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f20a171ed9---29424245145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac55475d56a---39780199369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C5 5520 bytes
SHA-256: a7901d4d32b8625e1c2bb0a3b422121f8e79d309836ccc5ac800687fb18225b4
font_01_sfnt_off0001049f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049F 10884 bytes
SHA-256: e8787372de2aca9bbb5cda6299eff4b0453990a156b2c2281298292e8ae82b36