Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53c86b8013d72ac5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-29 13:23:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e0f8823f11b1bb5af3c3430bd0d640c4 SHA-1: eb5ab011766017c49b6c71db924a2a0304d7422a SHA-256: 53c86b8013d72ac5d591f69ee4ca4ef6df7c1cb431f0bf8f4cb9aba87bd318ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a strong intent to lure users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+data+obb PDF link annotation
    • https://adetexfoamgroup.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/13014440008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03aaf21c8fbd4d8294e7287e0874b81/58718014666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lnk-creation.fr/upload/file/fipenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/jumimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109121505102564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8622db5eaf1caf4ed6729b4deba4e241/13814514269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/17681160678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theaterbuehne-schwandorf.de/userfiles/file/43088817859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/90092583288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141bb26c9994---83319989686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9y.bfage.com/upload/files/20210911043712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abhinavabhishad.org/userfiles/file/zexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finara-v.com/file_media/file_image/file/suzipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/bejurasuwuduruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/nejobitofadiwovivapizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliareincentro.it/allegati/file/fowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.memoriahistoricamalaga.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipoxebule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.de/userfiles/file/jezaviwilujumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/1776404189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/murogemasumat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/zusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/19267435509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/66207997163.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_off0000b0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CC 14672 bytes
SHA-256: 97cf46a50f44a3d5b63b0683a0831316c82b8b422d7a4a9d824a313fe6400ab7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD1 10284 bytes
SHA-256: af99a23048c536cbbc5a97ca0ee9a9fba87184616645d4577bd585065628bde9