Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54adee49892d5984…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 498da0d98a7a1f623ad8c49a9f937b67 SHA-1: 2787bd1e42a0bc7b38da14c413d7c4e006c139b8 SHA-256: 54adee49892d5984b613d436d893d1d7d7915e2e1ea9eb47595719cb202c9abf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a tactic to host malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/koxiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldaserwis.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70018453554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/92207663878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinusa.com/userfiles/file/1630468979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4acdf661a6ad370bc847d15c70ff573/24332384823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakefererakupekonolileror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363ef3ec560---jefumufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84b6c095b5d90583046fd08dff85d5ac/popizixorowudifaxezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/608365269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32451109732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damvua.com/damvua/public/images/files/62742968567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cmedica.com/ficheiros_upload/file/8095326378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/filividatalixesemerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135334900a31---pebozoruzitusuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/52604559623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maschimaurizio.it/userfiles/files/63585066090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134be1ad7cec---pimotekinugaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamzalegalservices.com/userfiles/file/24606561168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsmpublicschool.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/52323901329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210831_165722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnam-pump.com/userfiles/file/15706876370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/83449562645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lean-ds.com/upload/editor/file/nutogukazefedan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/91435814556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161330f57edbdd---64415943732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=shush+app+download+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_off0000db95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB95 17268 bytes
SHA-256: 3b94f4f3403d72e78fcfe4c832180182f9936500718e1f439809662d921db9ef
font_01_sfnt_off00010828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10828 10420 bytes
SHA-256: ee13c6dd2355057bfc2e8780f765cc1278832754556fb19c64a4c1238efb859a
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1