Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55610364ed9f8f1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 09:54:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5a40b29a829f9299c530db593335206b SHA-1: bf4db969199b5aebaf4546dd7bcc5f38a03de226 SHA-256: 55610364ed9f8f1ceecd6d6d426c8019c0c4098f4bd58399919f2340228f3daa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a pattern of distributing malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9tkrhjqqvnfbeoge97g5699p0/nifofeduraxinutasawawule.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtp9hmncgmknl0c9mc7hqmssm0/zekakofupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffccb1e319---8462094742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb11ea6758---74141161991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a75a44b307e4028b51c960fd26b6285/dugosadipaxumozupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083eb646dd67---62441188343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/virutipekibonutegebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9d80c6782---97834325536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuitsdartistes.eu/images/file/49630588333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/45168060970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b16d51f29---52343746077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a1af87ae4---fugukigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56013711456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/rikipunomofegaxavetejuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mankatomnclassof71.com/clients/e/e0/e0e8961458839910853a12af65841b27/File/dirikokamakepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/78483525290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/46054728063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ac1ffd85e6e2b9e6b29b3b4c1e6f4b2/zuluvoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ug766i06n4iufldnb4tf3nkn/9988670908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aeac31c39a77424078677f67527d56f/66293739393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608041c3e07c6---fevodarabamumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76193d2439918e25e1ee4116234f11b1/negefogonudilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990d1dac601---25262728367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb79c1252ea595df902fd144eb4a2f25/sogodarupizipevofaximuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/mefewekavimasekosudiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+ionic+and+covalent+compoundsPDF 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_off0000e64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE61 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 2930c761e02fa3a00177fc9aad0fc1063bcc8be68b1061b2b0a449feae4e2ec3
font_02_sfnt_off0001185a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185A 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 3086afcee0ba135cb1ec179ed47b0a4a3d73f6a01c116b413c9dbefc2f57c993