Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5739563149038504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a66b3294254e67c0e68ec31c8b2583dc SHA-1: 15815ca264e129044af2ef79f766ec930157b5d4 SHA-256: 57395631490385049386891457d97d4cd7398b46fa5622992853dc32975e94d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host links or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://visit-pune.com/userfiles/file/kolaponuvefev.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb5c9cb781---4432981099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56926283107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/mopudasedodaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58939534521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/77925724018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a50a6fb1a---91765039962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/338g82f1c3bffk10l7ho6q9gcf/konodefamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/gamobanaxapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tawuxefesoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/56950210707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv8nhcan1rm024e3h8q0t822o4/40776661598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/15082292218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithandfriendsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d0/d05d9bb0b75700e7199fc64e52c62161/File/93149092514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ded7375587---44995798065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b68c3dffa---zomonapezaforerizuvifolod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607855640f4a6---23519129767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd8e142f2d---sosebodigutorosuwepoweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/ponigezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a26107bc5a47d18a58221a333c45d06/8420255198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8162703e00e272420f993a59f76597f0/tapefotamelusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea7c3a2f77---15068592998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608063ef14b13---38462159734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9653c1c026---vegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/11569359693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=summarizing+definition+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_off0000fa21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA21 18640 bytes
SHA-256: 5a3442311d1639e7e10cab95d3e044ee7c092b1c3617fc82e827d1be312e8905
font_01_sfnt_off00012a21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A21 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 49a529d6cc7a23f301a18f4fab34aa41fce8503430fef7610b72354ae4f14d9a
font_02_sfnt_off00014309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14309 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1