Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53ff2b932cd0cbaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 72e4664d18eff25a207b2872bd0afbf9 SHA-1: 684305be95ffaca5e7d4f48cbc4099f8df77329f SHA-256: 53ff2b932cd0cbaa565305833872f65e055be93254218b105ed93fae386acc98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving directing users to external malicious content, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bae999f2b62df10f46c601974de30b2/giwasoveb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a187855b0b4---gezazurevewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/wazibawakubikexido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796ee03b39b---telowawusafabipitijalarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9cf1f51ad33947cb11bf77b7f083194/49576914907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svgrri5hp4rij52g5mlvr8v143/44277088981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/3463218042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078098ce1bfb---fivoborifekolijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7a087037cbeae1c96b8e3740c3fc8e/37744399337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377d804480793a49c43961a55eaa6d7f/sadejelogorowojizifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a1fb3ed45---57764222174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0da680b448---56034423420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/16470224873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanirvine.com/clients/82887/File/togozij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802d88ae6e6---67743329160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8juimmccujm9g9arsg7n21qc1/loxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/zorijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c20c903dc---74275077692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5cbb5729b2---28353671918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3v895te3qd46clumcpfkkpqfo/zanerera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/10897881448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chogmai.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiperikatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/54733148888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.com/userfiles/files/gomitesiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98cb5b9128---rejajivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=stardew+valley+rare+seed+idPDF 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_off00012885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12885 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 80e89e991338842431dce1ca28599374e4dc0fae177a4a44040678224cfe89df
font_01_sfnt_off0001400f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400F 19256 bytes
SHA-256: 8a84e7ed1b945d85772213d809a618a3b577a3e4c0a61876811512ffa5c3bdc4
font_02_sfnt_off000172ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x172AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1