Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54db4c02f7ff97fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 01:35:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 300acd65065f5c5b1f46d8c690cdd06d SHA-1: 64939b3751b7ee216478cc45de920533df3c743e SHA-256: 54db4c02f7ff97fcc1e3a5058eb730330fb591b3cc5e1544b8e64931003ca42e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=critical+thinking+quotes+bill+gates PDF link annotation
    • https://nurea.se/currency/userfiles/file/41365647842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607849c93e72c---nefotategizuviwajufilapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romangruszecki.com/uploaded/file/55506477960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108a47f65566---5647725617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/rapiwigov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210811102432-49332781375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl6v4lds4aho43ebpr29bqo1fk/87877140580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d3b485728---wuboxubagugiledaxirizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45f3f70379---45541329506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriramashramps.org/userfiles/file/kesamekekipawovuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://battlegrouponline.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68526048729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidomano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sng3obnnvb59d4u8b6nedbnv5o/tukes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e30584127d---71408055777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/82772972178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160977cb934226---33759623179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00eob4vtn8se64rbp7lbuvjct3/67475253523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/feniwulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosuhoatoc.com/luutru/files/refexemabuwinilaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a873073b20991d40caf1262663e0dc9d/18742474608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/22549668296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/gagesuxofexopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ccdd5bf78511d373ee4a3c53af9ad0f/werozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c0d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E5 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 709e136358bce82d531019bd6ff540a24346d37f22f210a58f5864074abfbf28
font_02_sfnt_off00010341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10341 11016 bytes
SHA-256: f78d1dbef9d5412478ddca87558b33b5f6c14ebd9ab4f8e31bcc21046f2226ee