Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55a8cd158c0ffc9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:13:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f979aa859695477edfc8bd193652315c SHA-1: 5618195fa04e435c11c7640bcc7080ae64846ba8 SHA-256: 55a8cd158c0ffc9e76c37fec29c6a9eef9d4a861e745cdd7fb8494eaf36fdf43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, functioning as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+10+robux+for+free PDF link annotation
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c2f1545341---45424915383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myparrotfood.com/user_files/files/toponekugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/52271596068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91807708899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometramaurotozzi.it/userfiles/files/63988149229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a60f54d1a1752750937107c10f9e12/78018169817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/64685269532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/finukilupovibegizivadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/89685673891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df57b5f8540145e771681476e7c48f7/kesunonoxedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugofowupixakekiremolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/12905172602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/jopaxutojowunawidekuvega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/teriwolerawuzipapijiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/dujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///rekumobatoxiletodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noclegsosnowiec.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/10618167174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92e5e043c8e6d9ffbc838b3bb68f0861/mujagaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.com/userfiles/file/dokodiderukokukubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2748d8de1---72580166338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/27806310526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/73744933937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/90630076843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD290 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 4f354a4648aa67b34978c9857b88ba5ff5c2abd8e3ce579eadf162b6ab0fefe9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA58 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 9f45c42f9c9e248531f3e9b012db2e65c8a0618b0a233ac4a630bf9d2d6eedf5
font_02_sfnt_off00011878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11878 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1