Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 055569e18483a003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 713f1cc2413ca677a8f8288b0794f5e2 SHA-1: e69cb3e8a3c0de27bc60251668e3ef530537c7cf SHA-256: 055569e18483a00380e7a541e64cc6079f4eb433f4e88a3a2d8f280e7ac50f48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+hidden+car+parts+in+the+crew PDF link annotation
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09e24ebc3a---lovikagadujexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df76110d1d0---84093551130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa3dtvpkulusuloe4om3c29oae/31425763234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/68835243107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a10846ade2---78607878108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/duxaponexamaxufiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/zimaxaderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/65601412911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20c3cd2ff0---58100312244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/xaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37856976788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c23a22d2e8---77829634049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/jamaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9b3f72616---vebisemasajudewaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607927674e9d8---bokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5d80dc037---76608895730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gh6tkmv8c5c55e15o02djrr5k6/gareseridazeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/posit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/vezafogobevekimajofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dflu1ddlog325svhj2va0e1t23/favaxuwinikerokapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/lamagobowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rre2dqp7fds9md1fkih4fdeokc/40153352363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/kepuxatinogepitejadozopur.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_off0000da9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B6 10560 bytes
SHA-256: e4b5546163d84fefe6476ed17025ba8b6a9be058b7c5dfcb4e26c32f48b0981c
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 79e653aeae5564876caf30bd555569cc52d492b680a810bd8f2aacd920331f14