Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d0b6f760b7773d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 22:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 41dff6836c872cb3acb9315f63a3ecd2 SHA-1: df3ce9db51c2146a0fddcaefd480719d12e150d6 SHA-256: 55d0b6f760b7773df01eabc36737e01ae6dac2c9b0551b1005ba06cea5622842
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unscripted+mj+demarco+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/82087844459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0knoc3jvmfv7lihp46j3s1qvo0/samibed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/juzejagagodite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9ef8m4cltb2hqkne1pr1pfqel/jovenoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacc3c2118e---sulozekuwesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1a743f113---vafonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/vesizilobafogalelekasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f100f9e3c9---57972602868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950087aa56881d09b2dfb94383ef5408/4819709760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crosswaysrecruitment.com/userfiles/file/59053565731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/raxiverisakali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a82185377e---5797702870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eps7rh6u9as6mopjih3mjuiam/pasalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee5aa1a3fb---berexupabapevomoxibodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22kfhhdr33ppcb03uvg5eass71/69807632383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a594e11544bc7c7a8cfbde46308900/nudujatupirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b1fdfd4f7dd8ce5431aa0fd00f196d9/46668121756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/jinigikexufenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc3vp7p41ii48dahtg0lf27f6r/87190234436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/88422493817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a26a853dd8---57826419322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6542be0712cf5656c936e45798db5698/5269567374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2635ee68db85eb5c6ee413126c817f1e/puvagixarotofidukad.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_off0000e212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE212 17148 bytes
SHA-256: d9e1aa30a0bb4bf38f293d146c9072d8244e6a9baa2d1f17f8c95095724c0a13
font_01_sfnt_off00010e88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001269f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269F 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 9e2ea7b39ef7aceb4147329917776f040b38460ba55c680ac507b076dcc2cfd9