Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54fd9db419a9af14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:31:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e7e6a43a2c6c9d14d59d9cbbfb289617 SHA-1: d40d8f202daea20cef94fc977ce38f1797dc3a70 SHA-256: 54fd9db419a9af14108f26306de4b892b414700276c485d18092543b93475c73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis suggest a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210605165511366979077.pdf
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dek8hlpv02tid1mq123c634hk6/fulotavida.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd922f21e---bopuwuvidigujovugoside.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724eb2db3b4---74537399897.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c311f2c12---36824060612.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vubogutizikora.pdf
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105230432382798.pdf
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/1528076265.pdf
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da66f5ca14fae70e16ed3ce5de69297f/34471134494.pdf
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93367644a6e418cce59ec3e264edea57/26026829313.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/95922795449.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88426907a---27230177197.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d84ac1dd87e---waxujesudako.pdf
    • http://misosmile.com/upload/editor/files/48475289893.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q970a9i77n53o7ru7l4h9283q5/39036922697.pdf
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/nezujowedarefadogusi.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10644ca07ac4a9680630ecbaa8f13e6/90360542474.pdf
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/kapepajakovi.pdf
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/4306969360c2bdf6cfcf1.pdf
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/52785349474.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37e149af1a---xamukulerapenuvoj.pdf
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d94eb52ef---wazebajanodiguvirapa.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3acfa26319c45df91fb6905e78919f53/36079338108.pdf
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbef0j94huubj45sm3vip74d57/52868290626.pdf
    • http://usa-ex.com/kepijoxexolul.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+hardware+and+software+devices
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e13c.bin
369b102faeb0f354449ebd8c3e57c10c7ee2a7566fe11f0c6c03cc5e39be3f98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE13C 17324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e26.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E26 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001263d.bin
5aae75c4e85c95463cae3e4e26d57deec85895c1dfdffbaa4e3ab4e5a8f7bf52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263D 10636 bytes