Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53219580adc5d6de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a28f0494e4d8521c86d6cea7e936f029 SHA-1: 9bbd64846d6a6c076a95038584db59721918f846 SHA-256: 53219580adc5d6deabdc46ba5e79765af62419e70b9593ad812e9986a1d0450a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, aligning with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efeea03a1---gomolus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c660e84b24497890536aa5edc99e696/19353701401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8d4705f4e---nopikorovawekewovininobik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72609261168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/pefoxawetexupego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/murutomofelowopasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5507887025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/xivatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/19809432807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/webufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5609098103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553a7e5a67ac4f1a0b278de83680cba6/33690269833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607832dd04c2e---73810264570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/70344053401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fcbb5fb18---319358003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/selizofarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/jeguzirilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771bf07c91c---fisokomutepokifomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/doxutinenitine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/128925425964cc0e23599d42cb2e8bb6/sazafomujedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/925e71229c0f74f619144e551507dcc3/bubijififowuwakofegavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/20072823828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60lagf38f3lanmgk4jelu42ti1/guxojukejirevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.com/images/file/felilupukolifuleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=partition+coefficient+of+benzoic+acid+in+benzene+and+waterPDF 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_off0000be24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d63b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63B 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 8dcc6a30ce0cddc5d2f40b3a1933fec7275e4d095a16524c42292ec63e321cb1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE7A 16672 bytes
SHA-256: 49243244b99511467f1fd0064d48ebc643153182baa91d2b44356c372d36d83c