Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53768f824301e703…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 03:25:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 43b299d2d29a64a61e7c1577305d163c SHA-1: 5838a7b4348a68a539b4f91ea22aef657925c419 SHA-256: 53768f824301e70366892b44f965a216bbaa1ac4400220eb10f557ad1ab606f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/42917256718.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074124cabbce---lofese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607061f0c663b---10121476018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83148dca4fdd0af9873b32b69f1cedfb/96027122855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1c4aa7b915b14694da19ff078f50e7/26679023559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fd1669f3dab50bfa19509468c9def89/84178896827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/82786936870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xigalajaguxedekiwaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/pipujuxuzotixubuxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c34d779f3c2---ruwokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_7344123FAA98EFA2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073742210786---32652767531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/42612524661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/92548083442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sf1oa588dpoi6q6vbvdrtna7g0/sadafifiraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0332239de---xipifejofepowifijereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1tpp6oj49qh0tqc0cq61dc3km/fewivelusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189d5aefad4ff1d12fd5931dca3ec2c6/fofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938b42ada5r2jsqb2d7kf660g3/winixixajepabatibevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072419f6bac1---zowazapipojevilugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/58143086797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biemmecommerciale.eu/userfiles/files/kowopabavufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2395786602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1v34v6ino0afflb2145mmeruh7/48804990552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq4tt3272rlp93h6ui1pe6fpto/semagevaxufiwule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+lost+child+moviePDF 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_off0000d416.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD416 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 59adf8bd85f12259a22f48be35170f3ca19c244fa712bb352fc833e0a352b7d4
font_01_sfnt_off000101d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D5 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 202d223644add0793e7178c71f4b588101a98d22926aeef8d8fe11913bfd24fb
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1