Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d2c7f3a83e8e68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:28:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9ef872376490367385cd075860afaba8 SHA-1: d06e96ed946d5780e5616ea92bb14e706a2da5ba SHA-256: 55d2c7f3a83e8e68f86c7008e1bc153bfee744ef1efe64ced49f78e6197274c4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the phishing or malware distribution objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca446d520e---18010219729.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/xopimusuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/94888899606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec98cf4b2d3---bosejodezepulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/10609599303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845cc53e2a---jugoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/29847928706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d144af80a8b8137eb9edad8c85d0d791/fexinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/budenugalirured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/finokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/jitonofamafonofofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca5fb48df4cc4dd42fb366141a5fdc07/jadub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/novomaleselujakifetaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9fd4cbbe7---joxupizivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210713090119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/77312012829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/76875472523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0dd71afdb---87220021469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/tofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84047036326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14385953015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8craequbo8pflb2i4839fprvok/reforosiviwanositijedodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3645590a2f1a5b6d1035badc94794161/fekavajafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=novo+riispoa+2017+pdfPDF 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_off0000cc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC01 18288 bytes
SHA-256: d4dd965c9f94a7104179dd4a20c93cec5bbc6c74616053a662d70beb33e1453a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC00 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 27f18bf525046fa52bdb67171ea856b8115e8a2ae1aeaf3c7dce631d0abae9f3
font_02_sfnt_off00011420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11420 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1