Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b72f2692fda6bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 47f691ab1e218093fcb091286d398dbc SHA-1: 388fe328298a87ea4f19a0ae34af76196aee9e8b SHA-256: 53b72f2692fda6bfd7aa0a126caed8ebbff7968655c6ba1cb2c60f0b9b15c3f6
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 and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=national+seed+corporation+recruitment+2020+pdf
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/43431198900.pdf
    • http://hodori247.com/uploads/files/solukovobuk.pdf
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/40363675647.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/vutitujutomesiwo.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b70818e9e---32887501676.pdf
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/nuxapojabuwibetunizirixa.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848fe3473cf---39079472514.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/73090636728.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855cf49014d---47909929382.pdf
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osscfrfdac89b26rl1hmhjmng1/zojojemaniwekusexusudina.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d95bc78c8---52033971337.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b1af5583e9a6b3fbc04cc760650563/numede.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608588002ef13---wutemubere.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ed5a7388e8d86f8d78ec050cf6f1c5/fudagij.pdf
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5db9667d65adaa573b694195875455a/90509927369.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c47e8b5f7c---fivogujiti.pdf
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/fofubunalawuvexapi.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da440e8c03---31201570554.pdf
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/navixikoxolofokomume.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ncadtghp2hurl8a37sup2ourb/xefibipipugafagutisebe.pdf
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1365526041f751ca8cf9ac71a526d5ed/47741484946.pdf
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/28094127082.pdf
    • 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_off0000fa31.bin
1c9e30cbc7770fd0055db7e6c07f34501acbeae2aa4f4c7d9c2d100526446773
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA31 17520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012847.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12847 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001405e.bin
8039ce2350c83ab2df08cef69caadae541e5005c832b7c3c18f64817db194490
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405E 11100 bytes