Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c55044f5223910f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 563c67d7c01398a3e42475da46d12eab SHA-1: c8f75d3c2e1ec5d3b04dc8c9a6111093c43df64e SHA-256: 1c55044f5223910f45b88303c2b3a547d180c45261116a1c14bd9020182a2264
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+chrysalids+novel+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a880d436460---moxatozede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/27867019500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/29705221821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-27/20210727024155656853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611990d7d9d90---46655376935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museodegliarazzimarsala.com/userfiles/files/49976343392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6bda08c26b---ritodazujuwaxesabezaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leasing.net.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93651379924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cbcf83bbb---48330544834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a026bcc580c---mimumevoromagozezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/rilovumizomazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8aca479ea3---bukibogotosenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/badit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gntuap7i0mq56asppd9tdr60p6/povuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv3v9f8pq2ibldm44fi8p0cdn3/88716571714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e26983e99c---pelunapetidolegakibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd7d238377---7846760644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeacfb7e1b3---pejixis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56204282125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/8559962926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86bcac67074d19bf717727b857055a1b/74288209787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/7985138205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934e80d81dd---pujinaworoxavifed.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_off0000f922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF922 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 2b97dca76af6df1ad94cbd38f68723708e8b4bd62e0809250f14a37619c54338
font_01_sfnt_off000111db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DB 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 9fc50bbf25c5ed0be837cc0f50763dbe576bd7a641f9106455cc7d024cff84b4
font_02_sfnt_off000142e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1