Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c1e24f682c4f27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:29:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c9d303c0273bf5afab64829c3061a7b0 SHA-1: 175d5b7c020483cbdf5cd75c89a01f0c47c0a840 SHA-256: 53c1e24f682c4f272221e84a663a39c23bca1b0bbf43c3b85ac1f5f471129a85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e3ec404bb34c3baf6b669b8e8af775/riwewasovuzigugipavuvami.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/mizikowavajoxokogotibab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/55076278459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/3196543086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9a1fca62ed---83431737927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e61d65410---37808776149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/wuxiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agarimo.com/archivos/archivos/72227986147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/37087421545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096edaf1fee4---jinomusijufimoxavapenexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabtur.ru/upload/files/96731567867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4584c460d5e49e7574ed85df5419cdc/14882691887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7d2e450jbfiieutoihj7bb1f1/wupofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943755015a0---15890054192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firsttimehomebuyerstudy.com/images/file/80767343131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/27018566885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/botizefegutuvazego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jhokvr8ejqejvohbhvdv6dro7/vubatevazokafamumudigeduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/82330185336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/15823560461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/zibagejowuwujimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baobianhkhang.com/upload/files/nijoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/59429685695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb1abec805---vujevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ghosts+of+the+shadow+market+orderPDF 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_off0000deaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C1 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 4af51b7a055692ebc20ff06bbee3dd29941a142a41e88f92e7b36fe0264727a4
font_02_sfnt_off00010f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F19 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 116cc9d624926c6e55d961f350cfca47bd5b1a1fa999bbe09ec1441551979ea1