Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f21f73a743f32c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:51:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3ac36253e1ae5002d9c2f2977736f476 SHA-1: 137ca876b5c071c1853dda13ef862068e8448cc2 SHA-256: 5f21f73a743f32c4e1c66257fe7b4e34b87a5375750450ed7b6d76f07f5b390f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. These links are likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the presence of embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac04d3394ae---lutoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e8dfed80ddc3325a18f6f629cbb72f/nunazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/17113144629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomontironi.eu/userfiles/files/vixugefebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/48005080383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/46806382969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146212ccfb49a7250b61ad16fbcaf789/xizup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/50193582698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2f6043b5d---saboxeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a6b9b369f---36599450343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a92658fa1e---fevilezita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tiduwudinoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/83157934094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/10927377296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://francescofesta.it/userfiles/files/gefebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f91da18878---zapebasufojowunera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/navilejezogapoziwazaduji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/jaxaxikurebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/33690039892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f765c0078617d6d8b77d40b79b3d6fe/buzawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/tixopiwete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98914528945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianspringhomes.com/userfiles/files/15775609200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d30b43bf5cd---57549858763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51986dd052a0395c77e9df1dc97db2d0/sogefedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=derechos+humanos+definicion+caracteristicas+y+clasificacion+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_off0000e6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F3 17204 bytes
SHA-256: f7d508b9fdbab233afb95d7fb4a2454f87f8f23673b8b3a0636e7fb299ef1404
font_01_sfnt_off000111ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A03 11100 bytes
SHA-256: e2ae10a47fc8c0899526fa4bacaf11c7da2932c3cd34cdab744e3a2220619737