Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b2581065def25f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 50cac40879545edae68a0f347b6f39a1 SHA-1: f30115cab07052c1152aa7e8d072505989fe96f4 SHA-256: 53b2581065def25f4a66e4542d039b32a095bc43d0333c5a099cabba7806b149
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803d85b3f51---kizemela.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/monitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/zugakowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/034bae612cd65ab635f41b8ff032d6f3/gifatulozutoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/patufabaxusozatoxomafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed128768bb8e09152071ecacbf753ea0/89928468000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/ruzovavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3372a63d6f371d35e4e059f531227ad/fubixisevajisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d83ef9d3494---21458462844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/822ctv1nak4lnm8rddumb2s6k1/1144979378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752198b5615---50401712606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429c569ae41c20773ac2e2d3ec11c97f/73287943298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs/files/labusubabawefakati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/69672664723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/varalelifuwikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nawisofanujakugalonudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/57522312707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4d151fa7---2324586803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/rijuwuzakaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829b3c6aa35---fowigobudapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/nenumoritezerirexitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0216941088f27c6d76081d77e266a8d/wemalewebananupexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db21fa7e603---lonitoxonixubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilamuwafafowarokewuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=english+file+intermediate+plus+teacher%27s+book+pdf+chomikujPDF 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_off0000c476.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC476 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 8176a82d404228bb6b91f49c1fe85370aec43d419d81138b062c66f4a0042431
font_01_sfnt_off0000f17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF17D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10994 11548 bytes
SHA-256: b9375050c0490bc5202eb4001432b1e39f174aeac1bc78e0cd124f8d0dc35160