Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5557213f6e9a4622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 16:35:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 28bd2011950e164e07cfd6dc725886ac SHA-1: 64029cd8235dbde64badb21a8455cc807c5d59a7 SHA-256: 5557213f6e9a4622a0e15000b6f296a0dad40fec613745ca78abfed745a2ebf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malicious content delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://bmat.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/sepizonolunediw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609196757feeb---99667577593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewudoluvalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/kezolulenefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu5jlqvpbis8s4hrh971nckkdn/90298828914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/90335867635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a982844393e---lalesejipiwadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuseluxogifepuxuxukodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c244477191e67e112d690d59661ae11b/vigowigunuxagazisilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b8f094bdf---18601519115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da6b2cc674fd9a5f8f946909db96912/womig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/kafunopujijatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ggnmtbmk1njj6s5ekd0ab0hi2n/78318570895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff70.com/clients/874901/File/zugafuwagokoduwefeweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42de11f7d623091db3bc20e919d3de6/zugixaloniroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/jowuzasagufim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/nimeluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94f43b5c70eca06a9cc6d6648c2ad821/vixiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/vegugiguzerapatafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da8g74bga1df6tgc7tvgaogdvj/vijasola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/003e2adf58b926c2f1186b43f199475e/kabusagibudipamudusejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecedc2ecec---81168652599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7ee0bc111---pisedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af96fc1f931---5597222643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7563e5e998---wixulura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=who+is+the+girl+in+the+target+commercialPDF 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_off0000f3f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F1 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 374410688af32557e458c718ffaab6e319e17c0c9e324823fbc37286328b72c9
font_01_sfnt_off000123a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A2 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 19fb8fc22f0bc773e8b4bb43a992e5021ff9e0b317bd5a73b13fa3e0bd9fdb01
font_02_sfnt_off00013bf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1