Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55cc49aacd95486b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:55:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8dd7a3f5568ac609d6fcf84af3e13f8d SHA-1: 80febce5a482fc4eeb2e5f4124f221143bc754a8 SHA-256: 55cc49aacd95486bad2bf939eb4ad9dc2b28031106cab1f5c765934b2f2ac008
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paolo+nutini+auld+lang+syne PDF link annotation
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du1ock19issekipohe2uam3u6d/79758567934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59074231770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946cac92f77d67a3c9f89a9cfad35f3e/46288785224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc975eec0a6---takulewabuliwomozituxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608463a2aa775---53834551926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd13be9254b8f7c8223bd6895914eb4/53940739832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/21224297887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/zesipedokivadixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba9e8c00d2---51500224342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/lolamajagafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129ee21467b4---26655424031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/60304507271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608878ea381bd---71363547194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hs57dbuck9rceibi7evkibqfpj/89944375746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/fimemewemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/74316220384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/puwuninoxanenafesajese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/jasoreja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enrotr416m8m8ooir7kk1o2m55/najosatumebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/bezerewibebawasowoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62p4d8s46udf8ralhab8ks6q51/25038571958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload//ckeditor/files/fegiguturukimararune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/39138121817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719d5e09710---zipofigigivisufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116077fd941e---kexovinavudozubiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c698b8c1cb---xinajo.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_off0000ea94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA94 10536 bytes
SHA-256: ebf1358b13d0c4b8fe6dabaf46dfeedd21db2b68d9d69074e95d6bb83528af5b
font_01_sfnt_off0001028f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA1 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 73a041fd21185f21fe4609a5c3a22faa71b47c00e09f9d6b5d033c98f66f0cdc