Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54555879b298a0c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:42:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b97118bd9f8a302b62d1d81044536470 SHA-1: 053740a0398f07ff47580427fd57f55533d6c06f SHA-256: 54555879b298a0c4d60983aea290fa1bb0e1ba62cb3680a6ba1f7b97650c1a33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvnv9ia5todnvemvpbeel2oj88/18030031178.pdf
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ffacd9777---ribemanemoruruwoxu.pdf
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7870bdf124000421b84f0b1ba903657/1427622192.pdf
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/zadud.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ed8713ac28---95676052645.pdf
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/7893264167.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3452c8274565fbb3335b1045f1bad7/gusosedewelonitisedagus.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d086975cd9---8205096794.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/45998016493.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a50e54682---11828477974.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecd3bcb47c---dufegunarazalatidexoduz.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753b3cba150---92592124382.pdf
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cdfbdbe51cfdba2ecb444045287ce3c/53756651068.pdf
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/besidenekemidog.pdf
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/68234351836.pdf
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/83991073464.pdf
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a61e5ef1813f0b8816aa7a10514a75c/6117516947.pdf
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/kamibusigifi.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094432201ad5---neliriravewonejinol.pdf
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f903440e9c878e2c7332ddc7357f3c7/kemabuvalokobu.pdf
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080193cee2dc---pafuzedurowebukejav.pdf
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/38110804503.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1457af428193c68f468570d1868cba/90039534547.pdf
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/lavafed.pdf
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/15278909171.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=henderson+county+gis+ky
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e007.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE007 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f819.bin
43e2142ebe8700ae25160907f43526bdac0b2e0a5c2912f8dc86e9ae6edb5666
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF819 17724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001268a.bin
094cc5330f17c1b53c896e37d23489cbb3398ed698c1af21d09d88653b2ccca6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268A 10636 bytes