Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54d202aec8c779a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:34:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 84454799097e51c8af7bf58af45e90bb SHA-1: 7d288072002c66ce2ccb2711d0a3b945a2314221 SHA-256: 54d202aec8c779a6ba20c6042977a8c68c54ae22042768fce282d568258bd60d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the numerous embedded URLs indicate a primary function of directing traffic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2ht9dcvepen6oc5nmt0774rno/jetonaziruzineki.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082315fe37fe---mavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/43513726113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507073739610942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/90049477683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607475e219170---98651263262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f83a01c3b---85101850339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b417c59a3b2---zafobajutalajesuzilibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/33771681950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944c54a01ab---85621689981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/nurozime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/28537376714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/18190208240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/59844118469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/firesavajobalegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/ferezetovopubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdb6977f3ec---64673946805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gghnqmtmjm0cj2jso0ovjo4bd7/xubezozabigujoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fb526bf4a---60631799853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/94474734161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/witodokawelofisuvezatilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192ff5d0265c4f5126ca0f38737dfe44/19037764772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0978485cd9693776d4ccdc6b00b4f95b/febuwetivadusunoguzomuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/695965e568eccddbd258bf88223bc90f/vusoleludono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6ed68e4ef---72201711835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+discussion+essay+model+answerPDF 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_off0000ee8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE8F 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 1d3113f11ae5321b156fd9e4e82b33577d99521cf58201afa63370477e3357ea
font_01_sfnt_off00010774.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10774 16444 bytes
SHA-256: bbe5b76927c70d8adadb6195ecfd11464013d9388654c8cdf9efe135f1879a68
font_02_sfnt_off000131f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1