Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53f7b6f8941acd71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7a991048ddde2a049f60435252beac5a SHA-1: f0f52afd204a107fb97d4e416651e70fb8463da1 SHA-256: 53f7b6f8941acd71db329276da127ffd7766f220516117d94ca871b252db7b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daf23fd4925---80608784664.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/82874252712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissrenewbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/53014139109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210610033426_fe70mc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076164c604ba---viratajajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/47443878860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e5bb204a5---62905187107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb588b4eaa2ecf359983225ade7a9498/90479340320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/61688198967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f34kp2aqk1kksrgq9diqb3s46/63740864722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c78276563---zuzomimojaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/vinorizitugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/koxubujuwagiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ac7374ab---puziriwelutubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michelbarbot.com/upload/files/99264183882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f9c3625bd---71163755343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/37771865215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c894a5018b---womisuguvapelapijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalinpress.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10929936964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf4cc287584---36102432951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccgcojbua7dosnib3bvterk03/97254830209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607374eed6c80---zamonofalukotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://healingpawswisconsin.org/clients/a/a9/a991db820639e3552774ed9a746c1e3b/File/ralefunekidexowatafanugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/jatusap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1377ed5a8802a8787d8c7eb020105e/solasulimemojevereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+modicarePDF 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_off000132fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FE 17796 bytes
SHA-256: eddc8d65be7977792688d9d4e8965b34d34c079a661e6f269529008d481eb4de
font_01_sfnt_off00016190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16190 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 328481190b9a67e804922576e07c96a2b31b492744348ca951edee7167d071ad
font_02_sfnt_off00017971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17971 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1