Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53cd3740b76ebbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-06-11 09:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1e00f1c253d0b273439fc0a2a00cc071 SHA-1: aadce2e2dbef723f5a4fb98794020f40045e9577 SHA-256: 53cd3740b76ebbe236e4aa6899f4f97c9d379a91b717f81c86352e3ad85fdf3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly supports the attack pattern of luring users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jalwa+tera+jalwa+jalwa+dj+song PDF link annotation
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/21528261898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/wapirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a264d451e7b---41944501471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc8b419cb9---66689742334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076edb4106f8---zufugujazewenumekotisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/33820153554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rapjt6vrupk14ini0kou7fvkgs/gijobanibunatutoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/52703483221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5e98094c1---gemaxujafavevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15387030955a1407b8d43f3c362fdd50/27623762574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fcd1be079563b48b1d0cc5685cba480/96633026119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f07b145a6---lugujojixeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9b1ba7e25---63980539098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55377d1ba0c98a089921b1bbf1bde57a/61961017432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/jelaponor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eeb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB2 4060 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4bad3ee9e89fa127d3ca1345f66e4d0641c5225284345b44ed3c5c0c78eea2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF2 5152 bytes
SHA-256: 02512d34f597b339b3278c97c56eb128e8d6ebb87f9f3e295157165b9df6d31a
font_02_sfnt_off00010e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E99 10360 bytes
SHA-256: eb72f508efd27b79f6fc5865c4461e8256605c5b4f04c6d658956684be7bb26f