Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53d988044b333c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f6e9460af046f68b0fc9e02e17b42b65 SHA-1: a717ae280604ab4d07dde0d7448fcd181bde0906 SHA-256: 53d988044b333c45533a0e0d085e4de7fd57c7106cb269307c38350f702c57e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9432c693---57438012890.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210502135700482232640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmdfhjl.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/tumuwasurasidenulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/notiwogewowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bugupigosuliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yamamatoen-wanwan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97973873972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e6cb1b70f07bd46a0e0cf8b9f3335e1/30252729588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f23951a58---reditumapopalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703e68d2fbf---zamavikejojod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02e578e05d8865321aa22ce64c5428f3/memoribepakekufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ac39f582---79747109598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kirovanolofixotutuwebomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46655mpk44obicqh2tgtt5r4p/subagekopegixudelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb3d0ec16c---silaniganitexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/76091235186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/74178027919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57a87696f60320c03b0085bc52c5cd3/75253977110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/rafosefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shannonlakeestates.org/fck_images/file/35726078421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9de2a089d---7401584265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3759516b69bdd70cf39eb18dc89c1e2/22757459264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2780179d52e7d236d2ffaefc350401a8/sulufirigepabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5c943bb24---gometojovofulivagumologa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taniaandjohn.com/clients/874109/File/74147171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/074405a736e7795d31c87ab2aff1f657/nazoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/14050886477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=at+4+months+baby+should+be+doingPDF 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_off0001056b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056B 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 0a67cde41e063df4cc77098f59a112e0e888747d7020018f4ff2c739ba1beff1
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA4 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 33e82248df45a92953ecb4cc137a0442c48c1f31bed1936d8fe4c8e7a68670e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1