Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55898a372f6dbf7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cdad73825b7249faeff9d79fe42d2bce SHA-1: cbf54c754a4bcff123dbddb7d2411645c9ebf7e7 SHA-256: 55898a372f6dbf7b2196b0123392f43609c2862fcb196428b4b0f959bf7c408b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The heuristic 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable macros or editing, a common tactic for malware droppers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/47742866187.pdf
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbb71c0a58---29453176791.pdf
    • https://faprosid.com/file/rumeto.pdf
    • https://associazionemusicaviva.it/uploads/file/97646408276.pdf
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/afev.pdf
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/94640415023.pdf
    • http://bud-drog.pl/userfiles/file/xedeg.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/dixasitefoxewagevu.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff2c2ca357d---wexakajederojudufunig.pdf
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/zolexef.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3f72877b9a---68232208011.pdf
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malab.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883244a92ad---poxojuputetilodulug.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41b5137b0d---64191051672.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb63bbc7d1---gesesesas.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c03a6b94f4---32777959417.pdf
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/92027216024.pdf
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/061302147032.pdf
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc8fd82eebda9c91ace6389c0c1fad47/98165779258.pdf
    • http://seednseed.com/admin/fckfiles/file/subebubafefakilolisipavik.pdf
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/47395106138.pdf
    • http://yves-segers.be/userfiles/files/dopemawapuwifuzuk.pdf
    • http://www.biharikft.hu/bihari-admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95909615160.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unhighlight+in+pdf+adobe
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D6 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e8.bin
513defd4cba52d8005b1877b52f21c9c11a036f4f8dfc63601c78948881d8f78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E8 18312 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012011.bin
d4a62f2e066599a639f3b62ba68722258825f8cf05c76d777115c0a4019c18a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12011 10828 bytes