Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53746bc4b65437ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:56:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4931a4bf048f206c0a94293fa53e5ed0 SHA-1: 731df072168305de20e753d31f075d148f1d8b8b SHA-256: 53746bc4b65437eff729ecf55931619182c99e35b046e83e3541362835e682ca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code within PDF documents. The PDF also features a link farm pointing to various compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification, likely involving phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://moristas.com/userfiles/files/64838240356.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/49025429632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/463ae8e1c6c6f8bd40b54afd8f4ce476/xatoferanosunaverafefaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c411958d0184d35859fc2f437eac730c/befaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beulahcooleycollection.com/clients/870349/File/lenipatobaxaxemuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced3a54c14ae86445a929c5ea3198ca5/rafudikexulewubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad7736b23ced21e61029f21bdd406a56/24341928730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607850ed435a3---78801816388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3ptl440v9funr9209kvt4gjka/24968656638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srl0gs7lmvvu8nos77k7ks5io2/tusunuridolisusodezagure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rama-sp.com/rama/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sobowojusofewikosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/14910123885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/gawavutod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/susepizesojilibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sehs67.com/clients/e/e0/e078d4d0076166a7bb489ca3b3a583ab/File/gajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/vajogekafofunukobojuboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/89509669492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6208ff3b1d17682dea9045d8fced3552/lamimufajikesebozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/vidikivifedujixevavewitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drentmedischadvies.nl/uploads/files/54237822457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbec4da3dffeaa7169b34b31c79266f5/56400144031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/75436209253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/78278192077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608903f38541c---84510342986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=product+of+monomials+and+polynomials+worksheetPDF 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_off0000c5f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5F9 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 45c3b72ba15647ea34c647ab7d46bda234be40f105aa596b8348b11c7eabeab8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE05A 16332 bytes
SHA-256: 920d82e4e101b311c09a4d1087e4c68b46dffeb581dd7dd04b604c299b173191
font_02_sfnt_off00010a83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1