Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54dd25043ff4f70e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cd5f222fd909848a558108f4aef98ecf SHA-1: 3184d4d729d4a9af354afa7bf911046c764e8444 SHA-256: 54dd25043ff4f70ee05ec287eed4528be01209e2ae42f13aacafe7454c905569
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/33205592086.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607cf6b63b9d9---70048556516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deec251392f---16586822216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54938259099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b43f8a157dc386d7d24dbafef37936b0/21211308789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/bonebiguburamize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8vhbufol7td8221mu4kct7p32/13011623445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a995897a7ee281cffc195efb4526c1/89626336640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611aec8c6ef1f---banobojobojuxoxawoxutepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ocfcdl5tcuf0ve11as5roabc5/13800821061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/5322537764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/20408384066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004358b176f0dd902c326dc7c61ca5bf/60642960587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e7809009e---49826876399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/43532804361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd90afbd065---sonapezitisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85aadcff0a---davujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/jolomek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/rukebowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents/files/93113705786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4096bd505e---fijepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb379ee3b3f33a6256df71a955ae963/4695389198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+to+support+immigration+marriagePDF 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_off0001317f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317F 19104 bytes
SHA-256: 533eea5356365889d7398a86629196f40dde4b632da8a86c2c76a67c2ee50a04
font_01_sfnt_off0001636b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1636B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017b82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B82 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 6d877d71672eb3efdb87296fc88ad8e6835116533a9f88f4a7652ea2af9e9bbc