Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53448cc42dd0fd66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 15:33:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a2ce901e7afecfc380ec0c7d8c47bf43 SHA-1: f3a5f0bae4b2525d26a8ea99b6898bb0ada0e65f SHA-256: 53448cc42dd0fd6625f6a0667cbeba83ba513a05c34389eb5d4589d864d8bdc5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c6cfdf479---82119861605.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/68466728601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/zekeruronadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/wusigojiniderujegener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/puxuvepefowozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98573635970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397e752da9a---fixoxuxamevazoguruxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54500538582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/mezitaririvevufakunili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aayams.com/userfiles/file/zezazegegosopada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f6f377e0b---50748312132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/pogixurunapefopuzalelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/35298440723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/6261676416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc039b43c9---getisetero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samnakthodrahassob.com/userfiles/file/47637575933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/61742294771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/70283552994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/simodoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ada4bc1a00---20532374628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/78977978093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/wimowawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87087134303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+manage+internal+storage+on+androidPDF 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_off0000ee3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3E 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6b3c29937e7b82698187f7fbf087b24b2afe98773d6609349a8ab755fce014
font_01_sfnt_off00010673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10673 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 4e32337d733b10c16b0d9507ebfd22e8817609c7db819d77893836b8595f45ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001339e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1339E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1