Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 552a0df241997509…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 13f88ec31c319f594283ee7cdbf6a898 SHA-1: 37ab6bd59627723626efef646c619d8b8d756292 SHA-256: 552a0df24199750954401858cb2682d14c8e51305e0eb20f37003f095d49580e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. These URLs are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=achutam+keshavam+mp3+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimajojuwefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/68086973676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/97212980130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/4716268236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cotttg4pv0kp9or07qhq0450fi/beboriruwipozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210908001357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/291a78hbo8pk1fdm6p9h4ck6f4/6712030110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/nupoxixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73223238176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f7e1401df307aca40249cb324a848ff/24361946251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137387daf353---6645817260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/gagefumaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e099a74c00---piriramelaxatoridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelseafarm.com/kweb/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29536502290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/munimopobesumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315f687aaad---89486705352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents/files/verolivamufipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebifovagewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/danuvivimugobatonamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/4765864272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27410532527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/74338055714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pension-chevaux-haras-gabereau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21658655072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/juxeze.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_off0000b546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB546 11264 bytes
SHA-256: e6c7d00a476a591348b8f21ff842afb378e690f903d73cb21fc26495ed702714
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE793 16120 bytes
SHA-256: d14b467a459700faadffbf44f2266982a22777d030e9ed59cb369744d4dd39db