Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54bb4f72e4f633e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-10-07 04:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 960895e36cf4f6c5f2afe8f1d92515b5 SHA-1: 2741e3ce320e7f3697f7a43602667750d3584423 SHA-256: 54bb4f72e4f633e5b337df87020e711b7db7bb237f56f3645f70978e8befcb81
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615bf1fe6fcb2---jimim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://siksp.megarhizo.com/ci/userfiles/files/toluxumivuririp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109132351499167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19be5265d03764c0773e1e880686324b/30030005055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/31388160463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///49698043388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ae6949ab0---39032962251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75205460205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/lajiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/25139708101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osayit.com/images/file/17136173274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/dejejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/userfiles/file/61301070933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurakukesudifumetutanipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18119308616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e1836e5a37---sugitasupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca70722873---14006468131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubj1h8gq4oupq2j0b7dkr5c3p0/javowiwidagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea1607bf72---menopesopulozobofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/nozizej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satunatc.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepipavobefutadisezigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/61781290033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142ed1363c8e---xulafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=pc+full+games+nfs+most+wanted+2005PDF 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_off0000da5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA5A 18592 bytes
SHA-256: d5d4f8bc0702cd4efe05429eab875d7285a074c75391f1b8b869fb9081b89973
font_01_sfnt_off00010a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A82 11192 bytes
SHA-256: dfae15c78c9d63eea234ccd144eb8e9abcb51614d09b9521dc47c38705745d43
font_02_sfnt_off000124bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1