Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 555a4e8e22ede59c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 18:52:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 26cecc280d69122d3ca4bf4ce257a275 SHA-1: 81c0d8f9af50d74391d22e0c94467940abe7ab46 SHA-256: 555a4e8e22ede59c505607137bace02f100a133cbd681bf1d87c49d7f1d1814e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c188e842101---80643814935.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/xedatopetupezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview68.org/clients/c/ca/ca24e3df3ff7fa9b839de6c08aba9959/File/11918839862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e619c53a9b---konuvorogoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/pevusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dfa6d2a0fb038fe1bb5f17ac392e50d/27907174101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bb4dafd5a---tipififoduwuninofere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b16e7fcab68fd5c259d767fcfa05382/26829548209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/tijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731f676c3bb---vuxirajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/88775519659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bf5d5c571---10722825799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n98ialst4v360ioip720dn2m74/9649035694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609488abe5447---duzosejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/loribewebeziga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9191de068a3a4148308540bb2f313e3/resuvowumovavetomosoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosimonepantaleo.it/userfiles/files/77420355635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/zegufunine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/vazemuruwawofilokosor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/lunotoketenapuvixesowareb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/37377957722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1982054a4a25e559f0bd79da76246d7/67442115218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7a06256b2884ef933716fe2526ebaf/59094291798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=toyota+tacoma+automatic+transmission+whinePDF 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_off0000ed32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED32 16500 bytes
SHA-256: 4d7e4691f84a10243e8528284ae81c8ce61f009ec9c0c1365766c1127e3f6fed
font_01_sfnt_off00011820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11820 10712 bytes
SHA-256: d611972f7b8e36d2b05b1e2a98f74fd6fdb7aafc79d760984a3fca39fc4084fa
font_02_sfnt_off000130a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1