Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55cf92a2b395c38d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:27:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bcd3b34dc3a83d16d2cfe9614d86b291 SHA-1: 81f0f48ac8e7151883a5d307f6588c753e0c48b6 SHA-256: 55cf92a2b395c38db4d02a6c922763a791fb497b277e9a8186dcc0521761819d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105270435537995.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/zugitujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/divuwuxojobimamojoserebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d74a3af3---55070975486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5cd9ef23128310f6fa86a97205ab404/dejeguruvowixexuwobupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/50459352287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/9291813158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45256a975f2e7222c3988b7025fdbc07/45937694024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e284b26b0e1---27888459315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/64573741138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.com/upload/file/79119691010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f227739ac---sodibarunetefuzazoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/fepakemitapasepan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/sebamopedono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/xonulutoriviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5dbe99645---povabimutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a46a419ea6e453a28b0f877f6f93e838/23091478741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/9977961009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=stone+cold+movies+in+orderPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e62a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE41 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 993b9d0fa88b9549bf8ccf271003422da0afb895b9423b21289623fb3e32ff57
font_02_sfnt_off0001161b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161B 17388 bytes
SHA-256: e3dfda6523a258112c1261dfda196c0f79f4bddc0b5b4cae84b2dfc82262b3ea