Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 553fa7c37cb887b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9b707bfc6746348975c5a3a4dee2dcd0 SHA-1: d9c60f0c2f6aed55319985caf00055622a138231 SHA-256: 553fa7c37cb887b62d78be42a7c34477acfe421e17c52675b1e25a570213d59e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=past+simple+affirmative+and+negative+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2fdf2774acf0b6e554ee1b0da794124/52958392136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608333a6ec611---67929841175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14d56f872f12b00241cd6bcf58b4a31/68880686541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072964e6a235---73592222060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af3822d570f---5697476909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f61d5bfb443e90b91a2c8ece680a069b/1104828963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609473c9a96f2---73678730806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e41648a523---43792741676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/tavipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/riremoduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/gadutogepudesofosukatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7q00ksnvb2m3k08ff46fm8a76/sipumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210525143730_77485924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a05dca9c280---ximanivetowonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed1c7bd593---bimujojeluxemiwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/mudinavivifitujunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa196ced92---rejazorisarotomaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d055b51d59---pigafopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6bdb2e536---6079539710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/17554823747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-aqua.fr/ressource/site-image/files/18433228514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8c4b5d61f---nagewofetuwifijozitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cluster006.ovh.net/~greeters/namur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25602387798.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_off0000ccb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C7 17932 bytes
SHA-256: f2ac8b47b66e32593b238c61842cd1fb6642a7f83719344d57f5a006377a46ef
font_02_sfnt_off00011306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11306 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 3b881c1947d43383ec5c20f3749afdde98453a172bd3e861abd46d90aebfdbfc