Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55cc667de325fd72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: a9279bd0f7dc38f0b640833dfc416e66 SHA-1: 4dfc15226b38a5399dbe87466605c6467bff5209 SHA-256: 55cc667de325fd72d7962f012c92f0d849af31befbb03dac2f85df7a48811ed4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a QR-code lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=text+to+pdf+converter+app PDF link annotation
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/6240996800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/jumokufanaketuwijeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b98c48723c4---dasudanewegotuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfrf4lvg0fptgotc3ghhan7ec4/pezesofilasujizawikumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/rimijenesejalijaxalatodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc030160336---nagoweveledogunevokulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/peliridovagilipupulowefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/23120352496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/tosilovulirunijigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/dodafogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/gopozumobemiduniteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d5b4afbf0---vesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0b88a3149---pufelidilameropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7f533474b531d05e6480dea724c99c/fiberevuwekumodoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/9955188468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c130372b2da1d87aa28a65de18bd44d/wuvapopumusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/papeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/98160612252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b692d06711---dobefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crm333.com/documentos/file/kinogepav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/17951235671.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_off0000ee60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10672 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 499b63bb8e447732c7457973e2e4944530b104f8a1ca1ac06fceafdd7be0c9ec
font_02_sfnt_off0001370d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1370D 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 78fd9f8dab5bf695decec3ed247620569e28400290ff595dfc4d57bc5d65d4d2