Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53b7b7d75eea0c84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-08-29 10:51:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: aeb0cdbc0f50fbe316745300f3472dc7 SHA-1: 03b8fb997a2d7cabd5dd9e9cf7bdea87341c9840 SHA-256: 53b7b7d75eea0c847bde373f78f032641c0517a0d4916e692f268b9f932cb18e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to lead users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://i3mit.com/shopadmin/upload/files/zosojir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ne6ag7esd437ii5kiuh567643/25371382198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9844b701a---goteweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/27822939167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/12642281295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbivoojtsctlat67gdrsbi28ra/96545113324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/vugisifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/13448431054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/jasozobipoxekupilekapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci47onaojduf6np4l2j02jr9h0/9800729219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/werazupamuwipuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/nalogugekokexivubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/xadowitofefimiraxuwuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b606a3f32---bukejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/1841052068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d38809efd4a828155ee37cb317403fa/berumiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed6268d221---zitozipolexewunekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776792e09d6---91431061437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b170a7602b69f88153dc269182f28fbc/vurezugufolofagukirirageb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/tokadarefabukaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/13857687935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/30950094036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/fejefulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///3586417988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=damped+vibration+and+undamped+vibrationPDF 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_off0000e8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 10648 bytes
SHA-256: ee6b023c01ffe1c2141329e86425da5efc154864c35ab6a3bdfd3bfb4cac249a
font_02_sfnt_off000118f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F7 18052 bytes
SHA-256: fff2e59332c9ac05c27dc071ea6d0de0d0d12ee6b61d3b7fef053ef00be9e0ee