Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54ad6070a9505e2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 50e0db9441feaba3595a617e93a05624 SHA-1: 829568cfdbe7bf3ca24fdfc4f4a08494c43545f5 SHA-256: 54ad6070a9505e2b73e11d7575d176cb0cf18ad08866afda720cf65093b20786
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a ML classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress uploads. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on these links, potentially leading to further compromise.

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 http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/23531921146.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9075a1ab0---8118670111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eslms.com/userfiles/file/40690325122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/9734237792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/30725894303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delannahotel.com/user_img/file/wejube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/3470224090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macroedunet.com/userfiles/file/kelelopola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff30b80590b92cb32e54493d6432186/lejidomiresufuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagiderovopave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405edbaa26a---13017109731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotadebiwabakez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/kinimizagogodaguxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17444436601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///3000295729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sipaledofoxuxupigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161434b9cf0df3---58428537606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/35359506106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricettebiagi.it/uploads/assets/file/46919298000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodavico.eu/userfiles/files/xevevugukerivukapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/56209468883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/rilosegizawodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag4d2vto3isk9qu5lnhv94e9kf/rigaxexeberevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c9dc14bf3---79381467242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=video+bazz+app+apkPDF 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_off0000d782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD782 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 937e52f17bf74f691dadbd0c377fef20d6f7e174242afc561e98a3ca0fca3eb0
font_01_sfnt_off000105e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E4 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 197dd786095a800b26779f9d9675d5dc980daffd34ab26652a302dd13b318bd4
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1