Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 055f57e795a464fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:32:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8fd3b09bc5806598a52ea27061031d52 SHA-1: 564c94b7af7592fe55e24b463515717320851725 SHA-256: 055f57e795a464fe1c2c1130a29d56e93a9cc8bed7f9e1b070bffe908536bd2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or redirection campaign, as indicated by the presence of a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210628111447_djcf9j.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b31a3d4388d2d3119f968a624b9b86/lalidobegedizakiwuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f1433ff2---gobijaxafuxapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/21336915734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kai83rrp9v4ugs8sk4bfea4ck7/nurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fd942c1e2---dekipupofemagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/datupusuzobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/79533823753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/dofogatosoroseto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/17986845976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6be8307145---67346645180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb78cdbeff79ba7afa5dc8e4f8fe13e6/58174246026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/52132364040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/lanisopasukidalujawavarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e34d3c131fc80b0e110bd6b73784790c/pavokiliputaderoxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/88006184384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/830ad2ea4693b70a733bc190279304ca/jewesorupeluguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deee7b1ec4d---dekotapefezukaweredeniger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/076ieiv9fbkcpruinkfe7jdfbd/27523409020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1r6rk9fe98aee0g94v5ipmrjd/vojumaputurudizepoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n07j1ubacr9n9787m5o3q61d7u/15556492749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/44491908756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a409c19bdd2---fuwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607875a7503b3---88363273364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/50427913612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=prime+numbers+of+80PDF 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_off0000f0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CF 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 5e6df5bb4936583cace37b2b556a3a363ab023a662f14b266dbeeb7c20a4cac8
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134FB 10640 bytes
SHA-256: cbc1d61c4f02f05a111f7faa189addc11024da6cc482a4da62a761229e1843c9