Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53ab6643e392228d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1dd15fa12d249880e935883d7ea9cd73 SHA-1: 175814647867e04cd34f9d36a697cb60c82e7dfd SHA-256: 53ab6643e392228d03655cfd86b142a666fea0b475549c5bb55a9e0dc3d78991
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious sites is the primary indicator of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/1378024622.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/mojikirorifeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burnat-provins.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoruwudalata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canavesiobruno-architetti.it/userfiles/files/85341115553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081201316f50---ponevodalawoxogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c481988cd64e687183c5fa95c036746/vuserunipixamolufutidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hindel-relax.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13472616703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d28d5e1e249190312b7e936df596a7ce/98354598921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc345196c4---nobakokabumukerozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/33196851992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/14797555378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a07474841---6789205863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/fakapaxotopazalolugozuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segelaropavuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d6ba3fb3---80146776992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/daxoxuvidokumedosoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbuadidravidarmatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38218651633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowitubeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f32b30c306---zewemodurulujunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/tusoboxevukapabovibaporul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myafmc.com/clients/a/a5/a51d49d85de18111a3d718c63a5e5081/File/zujukufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/72200166873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e95e91cabe---4102962597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=icml+papers+pdfPDF 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_off0000f574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF574 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 2c1c9211b51e1e854c6be25ac0c6a2ff4515e35bf059045dfe710788ce8582f3
font_01_sfnt_off00010cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CB1 18404 bytes
SHA-256: 9e027ac097d9c4cacac149387eefb5aba271bda219ec780f9183ca12155289e2
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1