Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54711aa6bb219794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: db71c2b2d0a9a46ed75ce00271a8b196 SHA-1: 08c922d5dddcc7d6c25a01ebfb8d1b867956c1eb SHA-256: 54711aa6bb219794eb0b92ed93dbbb8e90932a34a3cc879688515a493ce2b28e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a pattern of hosting malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=voix+active+et+passive+exercices+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c49dad685a---tonoxazenubawadolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/mowobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lnriqn52fhohm10fti6knhilvd/74312686422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thgbl7k0u3l7lnuncis3mkrabc/87502574405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/41488991782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/xoluveresesesifegupakoget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b197022b1---96476952018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixenony.com/userfiles/files/22354112511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0965845796---40988135594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/ragaxomami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e6a069537f49eb0c28c427d455fda3/zukinupevukupigetovubegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/salezanavile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///tiguzaletirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094098b1f771---kadesizasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719bf93f45e---28096942682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d31f55f9781f49b1e2768704b752730/dapibujubipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519070058716863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/tunariwifinadidukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9e90e9abb---22191045911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vvb3hbikma0eagq1v44app48h/gimofumoxapulibodetakixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44fea93feb---pasamifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/nidixofofumumerapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/90244096625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6992b7532---zukojudisijedeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7fcd263cf6---59183494074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010337.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10337 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 607660ac557f6feda6b5722d289b224132bbfab873541ad38336facf6f938fdb
font_02_sfnt_off00011baa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BAA 18956 bytes
SHA-256: 47e4cca2916b9dc782f650ee6eff85511daf9af068b3bf30ddcbd9070a8e5a4f