Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53cf950459e2f5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 08:27:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f3a10fac19798438e37c73b6aa4841d5 SHA-1: 1f3ec6178e5323442328791dccfee32394697e4d SHA-256: 53cf950459e2f5bcf126bba9ffd054e6a306327c1b27657f2b80b3cd6a3056d6
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://tano-cable.com/d/files/fitoxigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipomuwenodovesifetazidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/gititig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn----htbdepbihnfb8cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabafinesikomirebogulup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto4-spb.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/wezeromos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/26267159122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/23371707643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankkartya.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5020149615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/lamanevarakilopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23105482093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132da6b0fde7---76659900830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daks-96.com/f/uploads/files/67542632459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76766009453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/vixoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomerealestate.org/images/file/nanirufowenewokaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ephtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_1DC7CC333E1FF69F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326a90e504f---82575613582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/rorajazovowelowudari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.poliklinika-hb.cz/userfiles/file/gunosogikamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/1770685083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f57f2e00b7ea7d2d25608c6f305ef6/96516185874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/xawojoruvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/donojezatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boki.hu/editor_up/63745881531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=screen+mirroring+broken+phonePDF 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_off0000d739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD739 18200 bytes
SHA-256: cd0290658d65c2b027677eea4e928baae6a11be0f39c25b3d0a216339cd16c19
font_01_sfnt_off0001068b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1068B 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 6e66b7f3f97ac63a8f8d6919e6da8ea3c0def67f3d031898b2e83b1f938db1d6
font_02_sfnt_off00011e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1