Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55536962d1af858a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:18:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c0290c559ef910eca826dcc09446c558 SHA-1: 106a8547288a66b1353231cf6cf4cd8c6183ae34 SHA-256: 55536962d1af858ad001344d8c55019f22ea3ba281bf4c0f23083a316d17dce5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct, potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous URLs, many hosted on what appear to be compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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 http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613245f224529---mojawivo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/mexisifipupidorijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/zijibofenazoxixesojelufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbsgbucafmmaf.xn--p1ai/servimages/editor/files/pigodupovineworosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68792009371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bc333bdc6712dbb7f35626b11ee7e4/dafulesepudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/muwopesenojosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/2192719789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/UserFiles/file/nivareterador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semanbio.com/upload/files/6729429268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmcthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujujemesirabekazekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ffb40cbf23---15745240231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/fazeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614467db6e737---wurasaboseposudofudodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnlestari.com/visitbali/image/files/wolofijebubasuwumatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/221042025941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/16875226384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/lamasidabunudelemujogika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/jamikuzokafapitedazofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48346772585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/74351221103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/nuzodita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/40978430320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/gawixubuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.cIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cara+clear+cache+androidPDF 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://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_off0000b864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB864 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD07B 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 94c4f67101463ec8a9855afb8a16eb43c553c8f76298d4656d87ca5f65062745
font_02_sfnt_off0000e755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE755 18024 bytes
SHA-256: e33053ed71d73b0e66754cf1bb657a8cc0e283c6452b74d907274db07c46069d