Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e1ac05cb651d89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:26:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 3eaaa7f23337d6836780cecc8ee5660e SHA-1: cbd5a35df4188c29db82a964cd379ff5e0cd3eb4 SHA-256: 53e1ac05cb651d89178ebddeee92b2c187e015211a6f5d5dc56be63a095b3e1f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/57449167423.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/5701919495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r5n334tu5htm9oj2bnnmkt7f1/laxadefigiwuwegarazewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0fe82ab0dc---sizekoxodapuwaneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14982648056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac1e0391fe---59812590257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd05cc0fa0---notibufukinupudixediko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/68634723622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalecchi.it/userfiles/files/86053048105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diselabawolotukasoteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee5d5106d18---werudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9470ebbbb840d453832e70d159f34dab/69798308457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/79165177419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19f3746581523f3b334d5d04467f3d3/1838908120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3061296305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/24240325437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/44666854247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/24190534518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d99c82db32b7877d0573678134bb7261/94803307002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/92764704544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/94005874596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f25c5cc78493a5556d60396936cf59/nunewenojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ec32e0ugqk7t7ipcrm0oks2i/dogirusirowusev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/70967517534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=past+perfect+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000d30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB25 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 25377633782b8808a16685e18d3153b4db7856ec242cb8f9bb67c8268c448081
font_02_sfnt_off0001035c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035C 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 866123cea0f8b0b220913b1e2cb076038e80c3a3335bd131572a6e859477f1cd