Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53ae2cf263a24249…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 06:17:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5b3fb55151548317752759cf518a260d SHA-1: f49bd8cdd7bb57134cd838a1726de146edd9acba SHA-256: 53ae2cf263a242495b92710ff880bd44fecd7de801c5c87228e54538e540e44b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the detected heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to lure victims to these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe819e54e1---5511447920.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/guwasowitulir.pdf
    • http://townsendrogersfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/91/912616e09393d205379ff76530a10a1f/File/48917864058.pdf
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785868efe1a---fulok.pdf
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b54235af42---36101315679.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081100e268a3---ramugemefexudemokigedine.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/15858191188.pdf
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b477644e04---xijopigiresojefujekipawix.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad003e868d---ligerev.pdf
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210802104109.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161198236266af---99986171868.pdf
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/82712091790.pdf
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/83015832407.pdf
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/kudabawefowis.pdf
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38360025100.pdf
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/sazimagu.pdf
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/jobeler.pdf
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/61403726896.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec510d9997b---feragivujosoxu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+rhizopus
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da45.bin
7970c4c1a32423403ba27b5198b0bc2a58c7cae8fbff4a9fad2c84f52ed2c5f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA45 10220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f16a.bin
74961fd943c2fea444157a70c04312aed5cd532a6d0def332cb98b20664523be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16A 16796 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d25.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D25 16792 bytes