Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b31024192e0270…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 06:37:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2a918302815400ba196d1cf2e4983758 SHA-1: fd15b0dcccd2d9c438730ff51c35cad94f9f4366 SHA-256: 53b31024192e027049f92bd97e7059c56dc797bd07edf358b876086747a883db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to lure victims. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1925a79eaa5b6f83c5e6343d970bed2/61548753028.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096d800d568fc5352a8e3575ffc12fbc/92297781818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/21878317564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/nasifejedinelowisapugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2e3840206682eb038e29e8d76e9846d/9534569538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/kuwepilagapabuzuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6347c2fdb3c629f16e42950ef5aa3131/70569028874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07d51fda6e446c6eb2fafa6627d659dc/63466675982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982ba96f57d---39962489916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dverhqvq0b87nof8avip9lkhi/71348085349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/51098125312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/32761673126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/42740099754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607505decd250---36869665033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fuxifugojefepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taborcapitalpayment.com/clients/d/d0/d0a3925ee25d0adc8806453b18bccccc/File/nivegakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eadf43b4b0e73b122e30b930fe6a698/38637999522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021718110417285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q9u0i5ahopfe7cnf7h33fk7e6/jigexijedobiwasedavomose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/totamaxedejolagojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa55922805e---nuwuzubosad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db07f2543d---mamujitovumapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c35914bd72d05d2744281c5c44d121cd/39291079399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=electromagnetic+waves+by+rk+shevgaonkarPDF 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_off0000ed8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A2 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe42f2fdddb3bffab4387974fc9ed157573ea0c8f8ecb435fdfec7ee31d01a9
font_02_sfnt_off00011f9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F9A 18172 bytes
SHA-256: f69f66ab3cc1325fd3854a47c6fb2cf8e43c604f68391019caef370d451fc3a6