Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53f8c38c6c5732e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-08-26 06:52:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 19d159973de456eda4a5cab374fd80d8 SHA-1: 5c96fa443c601a1f2b850dd98bcfbabc66eeb0c6 SHA-256: 53f8c38c6c5732e356f6e9b1e59477752188c79ec3255d4453b62df465353547
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a spearphishing attachment campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://proxima-design.cz/files/file/53217612298.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077805930332---jizonakatunolajoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a6445ee10---raderokogekagokagefumubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086276f1e844---maranexemabogupidadakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53948977996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161141adc230b2---40637752532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/runapokagamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/68888829823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/49397003034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/63176602394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c931a0c8ce1---nimogovasodivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emurus.jp/userfiles/file/roxumepiner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ccd43f92a2cbcd171cfe1febf86893/mivebefeguzoxogimimolagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh1973.com/clients/2/27/27a5067865c8334ad4a5a1fd7642c928/File/50679584005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610963c0ed9de---ruxawugafexolegonepojogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/97936142588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/gidulefevelalutanokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/zuzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c442c7d0e4e---98023197373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751003a4098---93706423408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6c1f88ee81---fejejizaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/vevubekagezavunadav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb8fb16b22---rifujalota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10e77ac874b5c8662b80164a606aa87b/94142719147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realschoolspirit.com/scauserfiles/files/nowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=martellia+maine+coon+catteryPDF 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_off00012da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA4 10332 bytes
SHA-256: c3ed64240007bb5a26b4d5021a36b3dec4df595f54ba41fbf0987a717fedd530
font_01_sfnt_off000144eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144EB 18208 bytes
SHA-256: b487419679a33a90fc11a6ce67971caf0fdde1c285d4b6dcc03e4380e4376d80
font_02_sfnt_off000173a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1