Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54049913e8777d75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 07:17:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 87d80a7007a94c5f9096dd2be0e9362b SHA-1: 75982dac5062e0631274eae1da946713f6802afa SHA-256: 54049913e8777d754a75d673aaf2c1818e339efc0d16c82c9494e5d771c9debf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF itself does not contain readable content, but the heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, likely leading to a second-stage payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc29cd49717---24903910572.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85f31389ce547ed802ca8cd844cd164d/xopiguzojoxoxabafopakize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3dqnos3slg4jnp17f20ll4c45/85627283660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/31095309181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/munegaxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d39ce368a---48059867613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/78193730814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc94e41d4c7ab13a4534669c78b09ee/57032719926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/42904890848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1ac52d8ff52128fcf85c38ecdc4427/96202534018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e8e6786a6---42625883002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6153a3841---lomifizezovab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/63962512876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203aa4e537e543ed753454d1f5f0ff34/34387865915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/86204947014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb637f27039---dalukuwavafujepukomapadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874e7f458d0---nojufebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/7662749339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isspskola.lv/userfiles/files/30425715950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddda9d1de7d---3315548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753570dde6e---fefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/45463648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/zowedavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/61736390554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mordheim+city+of+the+damned+walkthroughPDF 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_off0001070c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1E 17052 bytes
SHA-256: c89fffa284920e699459245cd8e707f8a72db7a9fcd9b4aa79f2396bdae1326f
font_02_sfnt_off00014b93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B93 11140 bytes
SHA-256: b7a47fd63422c25b033a9246db38dcbab43fbac8477c219ec36407a293861328

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