Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d372321646e7737…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0781282e2cf0947a01ec9360f18a3090 SHA-1: 906dbd802356edd5c70de6d160fc642275f69fe6 SHA-256: 5d372321646e773767d0c481c7b991754afa1551a703140b094e2f45d9d4c76a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, with several URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/wajisarujisipozenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/74973051846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b0f137651---ripuwabiwalotozefovemina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/zelotodagovezeluvolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d8716e953---javom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3eae26a6b1---fumolaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16084f501abb89---75913062890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/28690637939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a0b45c17---41063377428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/zunitutebatojilemevupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/20365558558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00474ba8ec122cddfb6186849090a1cc/xagulimawodexagoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/55821000602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krugernilssonreunion.org/clients/c/c3/c301050bdfa85653d7453904791897ac/File/31452614488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378129a29ebf91d0cbb52b4357922cfa/kizafuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771c114b178---xokaviladelagukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3275543d2e---64337884577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30500451013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ee6763a9---4225227274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9904c6724ef47f81bb53281e6acb9789/35690622512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/gojosobokoxivosinanizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/58660934459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3f69f209f---21448915149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/busak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=calories+in+one+cup+coconut+flourPDF 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_off0000d941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD941 10604 bytes
SHA-256: e793e735e6142e5651755fdee61c532a3d8f59f1039257958423fd8d823f62d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A2 16904 bytes
SHA-256: f0117758e174b6622ea35ce8e5b7647d3520cb42fd52a69acb12e769914bebc9
font_02_sfnt_off00011dcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1