Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a21069d219c43365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:23:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 776247ddb3e922a38a85d983d999806b SHA-1: 94c7a3f1401db9abecfa102ca9239519d666b25f SHA-256: a21069d219c433656d8bed59aca2eab2176ff1697023e8d0928a3487eba335a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific intent beyond the presence of these URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+of+189
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609775495e7c7---45196431500.pdf
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/59933320796.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c237d8cafa9---mabiwe.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/093bd7959bb91c6314eb4479e93c6bc7/99609714492.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7fd90cceddda7e0658170cc65739d5/lowagesurivedevu.pdf
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/xifijitufebikilipobavelew.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcc9ed94f4---82474259814.pdf
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/91646745591.pdf
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/fabizav.pdf
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927aff79a52---luvapo.pdf
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pkf132aotjluk22h1r6ohqf1b6/82748189851.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ffcbc4a38---32603672071.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33r635bkh5a248e9i9v8nmt894/vowusegekufiniranofeg.pdf
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/juviworezave.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e70e3fb137775271d0aead55e7dd79/rufawekagubekerajogole.pdf
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2f6c9886ca14d1ad2adafbd4f0548c/69247034513.pdf
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/kuxezuzon.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afadb46d87e---sogogazigonefasosupami.pdf
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b427891e296---31724448204.pdf
    • http://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44144340619.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb71c21fc4fe4ffc4bc4939a551f589e/tizopejazup.pdf
    • http://boisehighclassof1965.com/clients/879780/File/godis.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000122e5.bin
2495113dab98878874de5beb0f49e50a7a36a56ee494f109ae5276776fa0d0df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E5 10548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013b32.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B32 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015344.bin
66066945f4ea2106606056b6633a02eb0c6984893a599caab55ee5d9d146f397
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15344 17708 bytes