Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55afdf58e42062b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 05:47:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: eb82bef32dd487a169192b20f8d890e1 SHA-1: c53637f97517d245900b20e906f7a6b7ea438509 SHA-256: 55afdf58e42062b41bee5591cddd26d057790d086bc9384b905f32baac105378
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The document is image-heavy with minimal text, suggesting it's designed to trick users into interacting with embedded links. Multiple heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://nm-union.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64782208040.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/80899031716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccm41o7e4tffdndh76en4d7tqo/43846042886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6im4u0gikhs3jric01tj5gfto/defetotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bawopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzafjc.com/uploadfile/files/12961767126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mislenyiallatorvos.hu/userfiles/file/laxofojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/korofowurukererazelavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://addon-colsman.somantec.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pojokowokaribak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/81226224471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/lijugijogese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/92220533180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/rawarikukarumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/saboduwanulogoxemex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f085edef6---65796229210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/fomasivagutolopepapogujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xibigepoworirofikopogafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohntraumgmbh.at/33947191586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/80501667480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/sedirepawixozufesifemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziszolg.hu/editor_up/wamiridavobomifigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/bomipuzitosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/xopekajujexenedikezulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/jirip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/87231042601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+back+up+chats+on+telegramPDF 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_off0000b4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A2 11140 bytes
SHA-256: da696e2b1210af554f0c2528806be1b18a48c21883941f182eda0294a4cba6b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66F 14088 bytes
SHA-256: c6748aa0d98894fc7534cff948443b4679a988d4241d53b403c2251661f5bd95