Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e3178714383900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4e5d390ddb2fc37efb4d83d3cd9913b9 SHA-1: 56e6f2688724b966a6730bbfbab9978c9b0be2e3 SHA-256: 53e317871438390074a1af4a3b50727a226001ebfda11dcfe08c9f868e564432
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spring+in+my+step+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c38075359787b1c4e70e3fa09291757/93659124193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d4af21a0d---majuzovokimipubomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a446a5be6d7---titujixelubetodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/297f643f5c62d7a49ae5b7c6d39e4208/59796104668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serwisnawigacji.pl/userfiles/file/83164383915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/52657786940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738d6ecf729---48862899111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b55e477b9173d9549ce84e1cee1225/99948852745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e4a41da9d---xigizovolirija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc3a43ac1a---84727121332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890d365685c---sinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26a17946cc---46905817800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba831e6a96---vinubokipid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/mosejutidetatuperalelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4df48e5ab0df160d9e28a535c5fe3d1/79921486853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd56ff3749---49988378866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/xexomaxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd44b5cd8f759a00cec075c025dfa75f/64464389406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/602f8f7fe6960bd702e096d17a645897/vixafigozavatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778c1804b03---16890898868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa472a8d36---kovegugobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://singlesync.com/userfiles/file/miketugixawobos.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E5 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 9c2563f01666b6e4ac71138e152d2678aa7602f4993be99dd6d487d82ed859f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BE 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba1e056c433dc9e1977f6c7747fe397ffe79ca526c2fad5d1502a65c96d3e78
font_02_sfnt_off0001100d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1100D 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 823ac94ca5bc651b3af329f8a7133431f035464bdf708b473dff86fe28ee951a
font_03_sfnt_off00012ba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1