Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e021c7feb66f6234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:05:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4f8e00710ab714d040cbb0834e0586cb SHA-1: b0507450c7cf93c0ca9f248ebf2c2e05dc67b608 SHA-256: e021c7feb66f6234c560ed4c53a44a390335ba341acb0706fcf3f8c92595c758
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics and external URI firings strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arraignment+meaning+in+tagalog PDF link annotation
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d3fe2c7ee---49207767763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moodyhighclassof70reunion.com/clients/2/24/24f6aee67edc386a60746049a176a33b/File/52078772546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/77398987157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546eabd7c370e08cff5c6784b9c9df93/33051472818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/lebuwekanozinedafivamew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/70910632659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b37340523---morasinose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/suzavorawesitotosuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e34f4523c71101fdf16f3ba11333089/nukubofakoxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e005268829---vatuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f1d789e025ffac9c5be84a9cf14fd7/sukaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/tusojuveborixoxitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef051a7a7333fcdc95d9369d2556dd7/44273979476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_FD3B7D81953F6008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade3d95b4db---kozubowexadafisadekotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c191b860515---pekotafubobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/75123992901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d42640491---64127345258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koncnc.com/genelresimler/file/20973244447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjzy18.com/image/uload/files/11125345581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/masenoriduregejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee1smpqsh4399oirgmbb79m6d/fononezapudobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/xizefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/zakavapatineno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/29280165319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/36680960016.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f91f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011136.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11136 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 6ce01bd96ba76cb5f628f32dc14a15c2295ac0ceb306e01b7945a356d6a9ecc3
font_02_sfnt_off0001283f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283F 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 6d12c452675d96861ced02c833f10c3537398dfb6073b0d420e2e6b0125e4255