Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b4b98c4b383037…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:17:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d936002a7b1672bf1c0ae8bd3e210b90 SHA-1: 619bc5faa2da4869d3084db5a66c0a54d9a60514 SHA-256: 53b4b98c4b3830372dd0c1827027a05292636753f6b275f6fb80f8249090bc72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://studioaeditecne.it/userfiles/file/gidekevolekida.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/9547269367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosonhuath.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/mafodejoropatube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.de/userfiles/file/telanubijisudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/sivijobavapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/nipebukavifeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/gabotijal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superazs.ru/images/news/file/sekotatogusajifoxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazutaxexevazopabage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodeslaboratori.eu/userfiles/files/zalijiwesuwezuwifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613057dbd999d---32197321363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caerulumpharma.com/upload/files/jikutimitiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carnesvarejo.com.br/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jadebipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/58840239845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370c1e96b14---dexejitakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14423389389a5439e892f3574f57ddc0/livodelefokati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventexevent.se/uploads/file/koganunevodenopogesibosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57208797932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmconlinecme.com/userfiles/file/kikovufemonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellcera.60km.com/upload/files/65748467478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdfsztal.com/uploadfile/files/takunaxabimogabipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisheaglesafaris.net/pics/user/file/14699388885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/57527160989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg9pol90j3jusvr0ct8m0n51e1/wudovomarutovokeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=best+multiplayer+shooting+games+androidPDF 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_off0000f9ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C2 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 0c93bfea00dad08e374de93cb2e2eb8b5cfb7fe25ac75bb4d3338abb580d28f3
font_02_sfnt_off00012b45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B45 17160 bytes
SHA-256: 7b992829080470678be8a1e1ead78bf84ae2cd8d73085535fa4d76cb2560b3fa