Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53bdb14e24b49bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:45:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 41cd939326796c3e573a553a39c6a1e6 SHA-1: db82ec499905324de3c67153cf46ed649c686c99 SHA-256: 53bdb14e24b49baed9e90c089714364e74be9e0308987d4663b9f88f6395441c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, suggesting the primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+for+love+summary+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/zivedesebikibila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/fufapipusiwunukojinizovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11927e08596cfc562765bdb49c6418ca/2397383571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/61445388975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c497a09b6f---tanulunapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607912d41d20c---sopuvugili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b4ede4a2f17e50a371ac9a0d267fb80/78085532311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/zisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/mexatatudegisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084160ddba11---88106192211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/delotixuxepanigedelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumavubasezopenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11310afc8ee43dc06282fad6a2593669/32305927983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1dcd8439e3---61130279532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93ea06713f977424d6b61c7e1ae1700b/90536775705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wijadofutila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27b64def19---14529543336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4312120b7---wobojizajutuvajorit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806cd2bb04c---788120137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/18530222339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649eb334deec409b3f55ce14fe616292/rafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/61217006234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/85729176983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9195461038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/pukeweponuzipemifuzajesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB83 17024 bytes
SHA-256: be1c8a7889889f1509b24fe61f5553a5de5fc31d029d88404284581d7ecf0cd0
font_01_sfnt_off000117d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117D9 10628 bytes
SHA-256: aa8df1e3a2e9ce5ed06550ead0fc1f92254309ad3378c2e311d7d1f5ecb3c85f
font_02_sfnt_off00013043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13043 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1