Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54a58146702560a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:19:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 72e729a832073d455bbea6199e0d4445 SHA-1: 17c6faa851f9ce0ec6af56ab7ea3fac17e2f507e SHA-256: 54a58146702560a418d2e37b99c352646e31d2bcb3a943b5b6b2a0885b809564
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms, and the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic points to links hosted on compromised WordPress sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link structure strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://biogenetixpharma.com/ci/userfiles/files/zexotomibavejoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/64566094936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161265561c06e7---bagixofotafuzanuvubeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1lp0d94d6b53atsu8dtnss644/87514675004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needlugs.com/userfiles/files/68041894362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/rawemera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5eafcb55d---49037155822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021915923600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050454825fc14879a8e08b5272d055ce/fotodevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/6387131939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/wesixexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3929daf5de---vevasurago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kusadasidentalclinic.com/img/userfiles/files/xarimunetegumodisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fff397070e---30601601492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84753812171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debnine.net/UserFiles/File/45828363747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad2a72b7ca---14270432813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavidexofuzopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikajubasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedimejenupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/9548712742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/tejotujituvuxovufadato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/50490227614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=basic+nutrition+book+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_off0000c446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC446 20084 bytes
SHA-256: 0817af6cf1522226247efb2ee79fdee00c364155864d706cdbddf5718029b85b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF725 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F3C 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd90b6df09886ccc9a4319e75381a2a72f83712c629703f5194c367d3382e91