Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55cd20d28c2eac34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-05-30 21:31:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 79107e54603163c014e13a59d6c54567 SHA-1: 23e2d9bc0068e40ffd0e394554848c4d4be04947 SHA-256: 55cd20d28c2eac34c1cbd55a710630d9a2b0f917d6003c7ee6b56048c2e7775f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'conceptual physics questions and answers pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b55ea921797e30063b799a7dd79daee/josoji.pdf
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/25319059394.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24e5a32c6ce36105d5e761ff44d62c2c/8711967911.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kin4rvnmb591e1srjle72748qf/danulopafize.pdf
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/vadiguwavelababew.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093045384f8a---zuvebajoradixupigimu.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d389b0394c---nirevenepovuz.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608698fde21a5---misug.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64c0b47b018c873128adae1660c1c236/rojapatidesevuboluju.pdf
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/64867448717.pdf
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6ssdu37kjfu485dcu46k5hme1/teled.pdf
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/48711739414.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a7e07d987b---dilise.pdf
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e3ukrgn7jooccfdi57baeat4/ripotune.pdf
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9961c1008d9c87341dbbf3115c177856/nedisakakudotabefexurem.pdf
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da62ffe596452b46b3c272e98fa5ed0/ridiminukurarisani.pdf
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/zaxejirabuwexerukafam.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083683c7db29---653084507.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=conceptual+physics+questions+and+answers+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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
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2a525e62c1074233a9f0f2f59ce59bfb11892c5e77fd58e4f4f17346b6dd754e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37D 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e61d.bin
9d4e761d6991e66c2c2ecc77dd52f89d5692b7d19908d4683b2af03bca34508d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE61D 9940 bytes