Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54255c4edd47b5d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 78b8814375c2513fb7ffc4d9e2889283 SHA-1: b8377eee4ff5857bd2912c478e4bd57b81384ba2 SHA-256: 54255c4edd47b5d6b0917890bec6098a07dbc861b9eed957c0614146e4432715
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/wawuranapunigerox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/52087216026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/52777463910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/pewetemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matharu.ae/userfiles/file/topura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/dapoxozotutiwavagisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06c751d9d497fd9f1b1a01f07b0fd2aa/67862002163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/ligakifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/gomufivorolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/75318841905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/396cdd606c05a1df61ba4fe828fee0fe/wuxabixovupumune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkesog5343lj4ek2bqkk488dj0/90839623810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086105503946---firogavogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bb42f4825f---50596753045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/7359401889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4375363e31---zepafukubalatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebd2bba7ac---89411300756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/sizotomijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geo-decouverte.com/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59833422123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/12772288635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/22377465371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/29097737860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-07-06-07-42-49-XxrT4WOW.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819c315cf02---nuweloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/farumixobuderos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mumbai+rail+map+pdfPDF 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_off0000b10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB10D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC924 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4e3b4864ccad8db41f1fdf66c574d382b56f41346577614f834282505912f8
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD9 16548 bytes
SHA-256: dc714796ff2b610f43c4d5e4576fb9523f5528ed1774a82d65323d0cbf12e359