Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 554aaf2a3516be2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 13:42:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ff061f969ba7c0d2f665ba65de093d4f SHA-1: 4a92bb7e229c3b1bc98569883a214f583d214820 SHA-256: 554aaf2a3516be2fdfdf3bc355967a3bc5c62866629ee506793518a759719a87
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a high ML classifier score indicate a strong likelihood of phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aa7ca7eb0---4137020257.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/gabirojelalaruzizijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45295ac2e54abde1e9aefb0edd1f3e57/68696045287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/94431690744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc0c020faee87c0c635fe1326070242/pavejapavisigojozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/95174555399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s82ih67troilunl3l7b47r8h7f/pavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a9b4eb4a4---92124832179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/kufabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed2e03181b16af21ef2b216308adf21b/60476411780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0a779b850e42a2787701b676dd6fb0/pozasujegagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/porakabarovebuvelimulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimtronu.org/userfiles/file/24614986793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/39332320246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whscardinals1963.com/clients/9/9e/9e5fab02d16e7113a74bdd4e7828f974/File/88700492465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heritagecarletonplace.com/clients/c/c2/c23aa4fb54f25340752d20cfcff880b2/File/paferuwekavafuguwili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff68.com/clients/71184/File/jeferexonofadukutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/ruzaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b948cf2610a4e9bb185e13819987a7/wijuleralakotofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jev1dotcplv55smj774o8997n/92390281383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ffae6374e---fufolikubuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/befivuvafoxobebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.octopus-quatuorvocal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86339392066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitemelazuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+recover+deleted+text+messages+android+without+computerPDF 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_off0000fc48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC48 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 3eea820584e3bc80c669bfff1bb9a4d5b832b6a5c998781a096729cd370ed0e8
font_01_sfnt_off00011679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11679 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E8B 17472 bytes
SHA-256: d1978e2ca858232d06b88af66ea55606384167ab810d42f3dfdbab3316b32a35