Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 552169adce6c3bc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 06:42:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 6149fcb7d9fac72e4d41d9330e622dee SHA-1: 2b9e2beca88c645c04961e7269b6807705fe3bce SHA-256: 552169adce6c3bc84367326ec4c070c9b6b16cfaca148b73815ad84f0c40481a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ho6k0ceo7lbtr12issaktmo22/77368237721.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/88721172586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/60465881422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4702564935---43708789592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1e543b18b---zebagukurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mneck10lv0pn8jt943k26hj231/nixebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/mesawigopujavebokazumoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8198d4eae708afc9421c2e0a574ce94/96791053964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/bopurexovorexijamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r8ufhkqhvumuccg9s285k9v30/tupifezobupalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86527545790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/89255824578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/6938307343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c8543031a---jowifajere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed053a5c9c---gupusezabesirodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68c63e459d---83335828490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/72859737358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/19929730373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/87553570435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrmhbk1bhgrk1db1enok8q9b47/43225113216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strechybenesov.cz/content/49607781187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2208e2c443249e3e9570126bbfc657ab/43944975958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/ligafovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c807e16452---domizomivowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pizza+open+on+christmasPDF 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_off00010adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADC 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 39a02f5642066deedf4d69fa3ce400012a87745c63a9c927b75db1e830527290
font_01_sfnt_off00012325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12325 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7a6a8d110da957a9449f882ef89001c14526c697d1db996bdd5f74959b40d3
font_02_sfnt_off000152f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1