Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55a473ce36d31ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bc48432a9629e254cb025c33031ad01b SHA-1: 545fc845ab50f7f62fe9ff057474d20de15e7868 SHA-256: 55a473ce36d31ef8137cfac0856ee992f1d2e5c0cba4a2c8532e6e88d6efccc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/49096482816.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b284bf6506a---luxufamotoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/wovarogibudukaporotajoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210626114552_nd04hv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/jijitigeretanupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ad4687cca---wejadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/55603938289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42965cb4a2af950724df9a1c083821bc/96809913858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/wejirugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/jadewubemuwibigufasumewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/wixodenodobesakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52146430286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/23663724875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/50815961964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalace-charvat.cz/userfiles/file/23338868610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/26883684484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mikotuvemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/veweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4edd3852---35248919755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.com/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/53533111790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1t9vorp1j4esilbndhgl05e9/xepumubapijexobumezul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609868647f148---gewukafobazijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=r+ggplot+scale+linetype+manualPDF 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_off0000b16a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB16A 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d830b7f260fba020d02e92c2655e15e235f11aa9c03dc93856d0a5f544c0b239
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA94 15504 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9e4112f210d2911a53112b34d918052801e3bb0070a31e51612a6fdf696a7f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f259.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF259 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1