Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e72ab1c79ad0be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-26 11:32:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49ad47c29870794c4c0369c35721f64a SHA-1: 2951ccf587ccb509862209fa91e831b06affda4d SHA-256: 53e72ab1c79ad0bef34c911acb05091ffa36a022ecdba875b447442730fa74ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term=download+media+creation+tool+windows+8.1' in one URL indicates a lure to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+media+creation+tool+windows+8.1
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1019cjr8rdk7isb9rjno8k1fuu/zirevode.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609731a20c9fa---55759582803.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbf05664b2---xifuvuduvafi.pdf
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2056fbef5e205fe334246bfd068d2eb9/piparipinidazonuvi.pdf
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/towubudigifogowu.pdf
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/butumig.pdf
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/30037586977.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e56aa3d8e---devokigaguxude.pdf
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eb570f827236c61c215381edf9bb6a1/zuvidugijow.pdf
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tusunonobozikite.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25e2577791---30882978412.pdf
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/dolirox.pdf
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/85259066927.pdf
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a17ed07b18---33293611929.pdf
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/jabadewofopetopurome.pdf
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/wadawazimeri.pdf
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/zupesemitufemazadilefe.pdf
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/41753413379.pdf
    • http://kerrya.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41125531593.pdf
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0f6f43e8538042125e843a08e413f6/tiwaketefuxolidoku.pdf
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/tivifuramugefi.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15028bvrni02mo59r9gba2l0q0/gudez.pdf
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/tipozexobejaxisiwin.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/4206607916.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e474.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE474 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc8b.bin
0731f2a6476c57afd6f616de2a6a13cd76d9caa055dad4f1879d60ac22ed736b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8B 10944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000115ef.bin
a7f394a32131762890a9de71fed513e07d8ea37d5faab9091446e1cd1316fdae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115EF 16964 bytes