Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 558452a47ad836d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7632b8414ad2493ed2bc3d10b6b82ca5 SHA-1: 22fd0cbdde3998c9505383c122614c263918b32e SHA-256: 558452a47ad836d559e778ce8a226b60f9bcb90cf754350413196c32210db72c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to trick users into downloading additional malware or divulging sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128dfa85d764---32597650522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/47096387362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645fa5d1276dc39859dc1447646631fd/xuxavuvupodogutodelajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artedeeducar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2981866892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/91349806946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-3.ru/upload/files/6158323391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91611600661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607022b405b40---genutosimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/bipakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e357bd8a---66482569748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/88527989471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbe68604ca6---zotejakagunuxoxuzuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/kuxiwotelezavujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926120671e5---kalowofafejiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/tezijotaladatari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752374524df98d1a880c7c131dd77a28/96951469093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9055jkbrs568a4cmb4kaoih80o/22367855309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/24256197520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agros.net/uploads/file/17717359089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/96330614226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starsunited.at/upload/files/59399521136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rirkrntvipps4lqb2qtd321ff/50362162397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/70693490887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/6077108875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tds+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000e7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C0 18328 bytes
SHA-256: f7fb367edaa336f2fb6c71e15340e109e95819d518c225163be77f10004b7365
font_01_sfnt_off0001173b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: cdfa39c6921121ef9037f3e3d5bc67619a08619ea787eef8079417abea11d766
font_02_sfnt_off00012f19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1