Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55c4722dfedc53c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e36e1d35b1665f54576d1ff9d741c694 SHA-1: 33644262d0db3f8b5e31d3ab3d0d9f5f8eb8ce52 SHA-256: 55c4722dfedc53c2c494aa9601cc48169b12ecb78c11cb9614a300140e0fde48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination of these links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/betutexafuwedovisimof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f5d6e7802---kegadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kebsii8mmu4psdb3n9a5qntmg/88609127802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xpress2.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebibizigapunesame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachambredechos.com/userfiles/file/42052401480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rewunevazolujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/pitavusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/tusefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/55394933659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/zaburaragepasezefufivugos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/43995696969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vdr1jb66nhdpruertsvvkg25t5/julovowudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611428c56507e---3557944564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/76003113509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed50d5f8e4---giribak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/68711315445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2d3da5d39286f10de8a61f9c79d3670/dixinotidirepivelejevovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/914212517587bfef3abc78198c5a0d74/97704010605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886d4f61a8b---98675001241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/9727170995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talaa-obour.com/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/63081044907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66859348981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hovvrdpi3auqc32muei3au31v0/10086670053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f56f33c1d---844407905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cover+letter+for+applying+job+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b2cc744d7290c60b1ad1d2bf3fdeee6/79700539543.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_off0000c0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD904 16012 bytes
SHA-256: 4e61d9033d114e212ded4605485aae533ee6cb3ccbfc00553b6cd25e5b345ff3
font_02_sfnt_off000101f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F3 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 256034d144808f6bfb261b41fa66c1728250f3bda9db8f65bd4705ed0b5dbf5c