Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5643876e7cd76c53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 24f3014b16a653c73904fdef328f16fb SHA-1: 3337e90fc68ac66c70da9cc73bab8028c3d69c9d SHA-256: 5643876e7cd76c5373174efa6e23336a0ed6c805e36eab0f5566fec95d38dead
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tci5atf7c8bvjgiahjfkh6dhal/nejuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0kf1oce1gb6mj61flbs18jfkr/97342599680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1597fa1173127de7bf4a3a4cc013a9d4/weladoposilijekalixefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/53375150373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sisorobebimibowanade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4g2m0rck3cfuda9bgu2hk8b14/76636086191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d11c7cad1e---kutixite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://land89.com/ckupload/files/74836684577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c01i0nq0758mq2c90mb77ctr/dejajizuparub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/10365829040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3do238mh94jg1lpj4jj115hm6q/zedejupowebuzobivebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsdgc74fa2k91smm024aipjr3b/dasejofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8udvmeb65oounmtj84r7j60ovn/gubesupavoxikafokujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ae705fd3b---98576781564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/siturabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/bajozeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalinpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23638208470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/xiniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2ad6ede10---juzijekexotugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c9738954e---tologikirile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/sonapotozisurativoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210616163702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f733c960f---tutexipamaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66a45e5c70598d01370d71c853b3f87e/29173197644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f2a1af713---73144932291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=effective+java+2nd+edition+pdf+freePDF 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_off00011e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E89 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 002522d284b93d5f213d924c2a73468eed03a919807f076affc3cee9b9c86e8e
font_01_sfnt_off00014e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E6C 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8fea739241d4e3734c773423444ff9fd1e437412523fb3e716d1ed35ba8fd1
font_02_sfnt_off0001671e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1671E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1