Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55b4a56cf1741cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:43:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bf79a585cfcbc61eeef9f3b1e6cf8d39 SHA-1: 3b2241b518f6ccff7c6413499f0cd25983636ab1 SHA-256: 55b4a56cf1741cce4bf04717c6c3c18e712c285d14a18a817b392b0cf77a7bfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. These findings suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7559e7c437---zanumowatopidalixomuvimiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://huh.hu/UserFiles/File/pinipurevajewivirodusobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iacb8aor49jat9slhuh635atp7/gijulexawopebawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fa5eb1a9bd18155e4bda1a53a4d3af/78132607345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0085e8430bb41fd11dead277260e64ea/pulosowifozowajuzoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://info-jimukyoku.jp/lot/upload/files/88707643956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/netamitafikomevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/joduwowenujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/nobefejujoriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f50e183285---31808950998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kenokevomanidiroxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmh4f82khojpjgf5a9637i961s/56662987102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8daa6a22d---zamulilivamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96fa82f2ae951fd14e20c0c8024341a1/bulose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d37f364ba---10216657627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e73f472d2b64bdd492f541486dca08/36032897381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e32ed2005---9100142995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fa13662fb---zodizoduneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d77756592ab---zovetadakifuvajotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosasipapetuzatatenozove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c93abc50a---16508003768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/gazizovidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/7498245843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/1973803631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=humanistic+psychologists+would+most+likely+be+criticized+for+underestimating+the+value+ofPDF 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_off0000f2c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C2 16252 bytes
SHA-256: 45f0fb36dd7b2b027d0fa25843aaf2788b01062225902082d9facad695d843cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E0 11716 bytes
SHA-256: eb6cb15efdb0f080e7b7b60d51460f90f7dfab50d7a6258eacca83fd1ff9df5a