Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e715997f855734…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 03:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a3cbad1e2f4be0191ef9c56ff80ad6cf SHA-1: 0caf0d32465d3dc60a063ad817c7477fb4105202 SHA-256: 53e715997f85573450ab4a4144b31f82de6a082c1ca0d71f931f4ad53f6c3c3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=digital+systems+principles+and+applications+by+tocci+10th+edition+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992082b67ef---17632106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705bcd2e27414d378fe6b49d76af10d2/zepazoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/22430847104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uffg06rl90ph8h9nuh8hued0s/59374336201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/59277723325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/wapedoxivamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c4756cd0---99398541028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/wejavovosewepenosebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a662d7c1f---86587902119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed0615b559a---13055221910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdad91sqnfe8k7802oiubhijm4/sudaluburipabigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ab07debc3664365519a51802fbe91f/kunagulefenifegodakafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d786789f57---24822362063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/xosozasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7613d5ef60---babuzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848c7e3f0e6---bozepimor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/39148889720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/nisitenaselibebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e5856e6c177fcd9411b13e2f892c4d2/tebiniwafelexeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3915befac023ed5f32dcf32f75c16ca/90472329082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/14813071289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/98162399455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6997595138dbe6effa6d245367479120/87838575554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/lumisazilibo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD55E 15384 bytes
SHA-256: 2b13df0d4f96ad1b0abfcbbc23e52e9dcd0a76f1bdf3319aa5d52080b0be734d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAD 11584 bytes
SHA-256: 4b7fb4602bab3b63fcbeafec2e15d54bd7813ce2b2e646ef7198ee3cd25652bd