Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53f476f3f3a0d6a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7c571d4667b467fb3501870ec0c8eb97 SHA-1: 722262e7e5ccb3e0a7bd8430cc05dc0896d0a333 SHA-256: 53f476f3f3a0d6a9bd7d8453b126e573cc6e6fe9418efdbcc884b8df8ea9aba6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=contact+dermatitis+patient+handout+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/12722657293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54c6bba4d7aee42c38313b943d31c713/74926112847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/savawolumaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/zejuzavavuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/31888185861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/wetovitepufonomaritumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_D5862673F83E5A13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doxogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniqueaddress.in/crm/files/48517806471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23946d08f08ddb8b36c83865443678d7/44581549932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5o1sfumucssi30ivsg0j67074/20640403624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj909v48ddbehsim87jhb9pfqg/buwalapewakekano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76abe1ca65---69144721882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5c7423b67---napawupokivutafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/jivarawelelakuzusake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/72009107268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc8d982734cd3c42e6ce97f00e381dc/vododopisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/74058984864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/th0sp0dte241uqssaq4mudo61d/69117341464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/258b9ed2a1cb8a5c8b76e97c8fa06f71/3100746758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muntepa.com/userfiles/files/murofesexisulidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608710cf82d3b---benanirunimolumaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b662267a8---43430105184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f1bf2c9c2---15987892378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8df7ee5af3---zowekuvap.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_off0000d0cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E1 16500 bytes
SHA-256: d46f92f3ca51f5d7146396a4fb57e35327b1f7299fbcca25d06902cc4f0047ef
font_02_sfnt_off000113a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A7 10972 bytes
SHA-256: d93eb001bb6219131946db0d7c22c194f0884cf058927abaf644ab1f1786d3f6

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