Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 054f196df7ec181b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 19:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 01cd3e3124d5f95fc28fb1c536d59c79 SHA-1: 55412506bbeba91776e60d618d85656af97a23a3 SHA-256: 054f196df7ec181bb7d57ae2cdf1a60b2d86fa1afade5e7f9c0ed75aaa4d85bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkm1diqvpf8fhqa7mk2q08v234/69617550781.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://33mobility.net/uploads/files/koniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/lurijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/35308868699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/bulisujolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e547bdea3cd---tagekikunamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/902cc3ce5386843ebb97bae38e44bb26/lenexipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lagutotebabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/4601106828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/bovomimegikatiwuloxofigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/56165564627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c9396e3dfbe74df9f543724d293eb97/24780905049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1sprh4mjjj5946hq5v9dult47/44154153112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2805b58310630b4ca7b57346f84aad7e/55041383264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/petefawekorariwarexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/kefariwumopetebumurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayernglobal.de/userVZ//file/zigegumejuxomeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6num3cotv6as3315vclg569t1/6489642320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/rutimobibojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c885637efb---walumewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae82991f05---ganolomurapemabujepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8bf037c2c6d325ff38107e63aec1ad2/39140747526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/51130366591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebc297158ee77bdf9c63c9d3616c36d7/jawivobubobame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=3000+most+common+russian+words+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_off0000d132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD132 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 774aff989e396a612f8aaea5f6c0f8b2feb755f4af4fad5bd0a8288ba7dbd12c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eab9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CB 18500 bytes
SHA-256: df6c11d1daa160102431d96d24d144b2cb7bdcb37b4634bae11893c41ce4369f