Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55c5455f1a460954…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2f1a4cb218f0272063685ba2e86d354b SHA-1: 8c935229f6df451411ea2c992b5cbdb50547abef SHA-256: 55c5455f1a46095452d79c29de5c2b05ed54973da47d099b0f9e1cdec0fb6a2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content suggests an attempt to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814e52d72bb---nasigisomojaroli.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9etgbbujc38sd253q1p0gqr814/munavosab.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e437de1560e---95512915220.pdf
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/26622808637.pdf
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/kizafokedufijelerisalanid.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0gtusrk4kgb7536slqr3mvug/gowagopipili.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nozewarazufukupujodabulat.pdf
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/pamawetegorutadot.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba7e87815ce---42168179680.pdf
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3bnef4b38jjsf6k7r3nb4fsr7/92779789408.pdf
    • http://szpitalstrzelin.pl/userfiles/files/36602734832.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca637718da35b1750ea42121a33e4031/zumazepijuginilur.pdf
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/83295845732.pdf
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210718_005137.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a942935ce5f.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756f3465335---48279448261.pdf
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021070319342073499.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dee8840600847b8dd859897f328de16/19989575256.pdf
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetazexusagijoka.pdf
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f0a7f3ff79c3c6b46a8578bbfc56da/92742636025.pdf
    • http://crimesla.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jarezupubutudefikazu.pdf
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxibolim.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=le+paludisme+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d61.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D61 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012578.bin
e7792e6c56de1c56f3cacb7377064ff3c010d63cf81ea98b5109af63db3d58b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12578 10292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c95.bin
2c94fe23a9b0f0b0dced2c565e14ea9b40518994c1b5a446664a1d5d6eac9e11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C95 21828 bytes