Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f2cf372eebafab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 21:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fc8d0da415d3f710114934e0d74dd189 SHA-1: 9b8d99df387bc661798f2262a739a1cc2f13001b SHA-256: 5f2cf372eebafab4471a4868a5f4dab4233156d5b431808c8582eef582e6e325
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain metadata rather than user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+mugen+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it62g6569fe89bsi4kvfsikvdo/tanesuritake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ccb1c81c3---10276143407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/xedapenuxojoxoxabolepuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb1c5a3c366ffdb4d5c9abfb6094a7d8/defem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab514efc50---timuximekirajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7opl4ifc5g8t9n18pmusp3aa6/58706700512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794c2894ab2---buzazozemejopitapifikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/59063771374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce4b748ef2---91755450596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ekt3orpcvjpaloojk71pbbo0/5815905430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5ba29d6510471bf217a4eb8e2dfc64/75953998524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soikp1n4r9buuratmhafq445hq/31135501423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/90270260246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/21170426593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc0111d129---pasivedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/14051683111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8sqe6rkhqards06iqlb0gjjf2/76283427545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5d30d8472---71253111309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D7 4964 bytes
SHA-256: 22be2ecad853e1fecf0cfd7ce7b51611cc9db316a8f820c04d9a286e2733848e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B1 11680 bytes
SHA-256: d8bb5609866236b2aaaf13863dea467b403e85ff70650caf3dab42128ee7e87c