Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55b8ef6773222fef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 03:58:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fd14ebc1519452140fd4a7d78528dccb SHA-1: 8ea5269e87e69dc2a0a42cea4ee2c061ac822892 SHA-256: 55b8ef6773222fef742f12a0d707d9a996c60f9214cce0a790caa247ac7a7986
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest this PDF is a phishing trojan. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a malicious intent to trick users into clicking links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/46230719226.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca7a359cbe---73353457205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/gazepenugamowobezase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7650d703d---48215334921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/daxuruwuwebonasoxagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098dd6941e4d---votibevadodalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9d333d047ad9dd143730699fafc2f2/dogekujavutaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rhtoasto4qq80kfav0phlof0g/gegoxozijafudumixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9ce4e4e76---35679633136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fd343d318b429a04418494de32d6f53/22882105516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b6a70cca5af121a9c08f4555e534d6/41601233801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ea9ddf94e---jasonurezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2169b2032---jakitomafuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cb6608f2e---32755067294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2dd0851ac---70385670838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/2326051020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a911dcace---69611108227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb0c49ff38---notezalasugusopom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c144c6c5c---68128653865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ortetel.de/kunden/schurig/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9455549057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=harsh+mohan+pdf+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE5 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 10d1f891c6626eed11e5f6b76ad8d2f4c23d46f277c3e2d7064de1069603087b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF43 1800 bytes
SHA-256: 51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
font_02_sfnt_off000107d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D1 11092 bytes
SHA-256: bf253fda321ed526f45e8211c9ff057cf9fe3e460da8b94635c60238aa550886
font_03_sfnt_off00012d9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c