Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54e561769c983bc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0cae498b2aac01ee9ced137678557b92 SHA-1: ee0e1c07b360ba1d2e5a8a7b2e2cc73330a8fcf3 SHA-256: 54e561769c983bc502f653a7e0b3a11e1fa1cd85f8b136b0e9707a6e6b80b5e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file 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 WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites indicates a malicious intent to redirect users.

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://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c850c59f85b---zobelemudofejuwagas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cf3a8232f---bexogujulupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/nabarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d296d678a---48567937787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.ps/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebodemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5189ecc2b---47431034557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801e289a11d---fifuxojubimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8b0a3f314abbcfba364c87c1f1b9cd/figabuwisavuxonulatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e958b8495d89ab5bf90efb30e6b3b3/xivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/rinolikuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e5d8ae34efd0eca51f8370fdd4e3f5/werekibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8bbff0655---11063720732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/tepuberetaxosumirawupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/35695821348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cd2b8790f---98770212594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncsv7i75nd44k0l8qbbbrrn9n6/21522261792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38895cb71ef3ae304f843274245c6501/27051056464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dvhd281fs14l1scnfla5daegk/34865352647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/94275889779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc070e1fe5---32840068682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/gebojasuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/wosefalezenemolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/88518148386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856dd2dd047---5105274910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/dunezifinawododuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=epic+thunderstorm+and+rainPDF 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_off0000f519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF519 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 02436e8feb26b17a944fd00ba4d4fcc2f25a3fc1c1c2660f33c77dd7c28884ae
font_01_sfnt_off0001216b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13982 10816 bytes
SHA-256: d31641000541930bf3aa555dc447a699dd5eaab173e64303f2b466c17417c482