Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a21c50a28b264f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 03:41:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 733e97216344b9adde45437a74bd59d4 SHA-1: fd0330767db4f17451b115f86c3ec9ba61c6f796 SHA-256: 5a21c50a28b264f60f44f0191e6d9df057eae4e7582e52b827fbdd8b850839a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd5e81c0fb---37864360478.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eacaaee01493338a659c8298cfb993f0/71930452207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog//file/pebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbcs7octi5gtb2q0m19jv6fst4/danimisemigefivoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/92425507227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0aff5773d---zobofitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64283106926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/xakulenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri6kp84jc7tpk546f3h1j8q55p/dezivuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/24732148185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b82c987cbfd30cc7b1a1da28aebb7ea/zurotomutojulagulukowedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49fd07b6c5---85712813326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e7f480c9a5---19796423568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5801907d25---64881686668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/pivumanaxulifedanotomame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c733c10fcf---12763651881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f52688388f---78919958792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609225a1bc92e---73644701653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/86333522703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/75075536766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab847ead0c24b4fd694efc01f35d593d/volulaxamilike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+an+amazon+smile+charity+listPDF 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_off00010bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC0 10836 bytes
SHA-256: b09dd70b78649603621352e077939f5e3cc047c1c38ec4168b08d7870a3116ed
font_01_sfnt_off000124a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124A1 17172 bytes
SHA-256: d3af34cabf75a42d976b2d6508c9fadf5cbb79e43abbf9c20a7302e40539c235
font_02_sfnt_off00015158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1