Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55d307aba2826f2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 18:57:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d67585e6bec4dd7717aa43f3d416e5a4 SHA-1: 40a7bad73810470375bc450d65476090ce81a01f SHA-256: 55d307aba2826f2b902971d458af43989d3364da5e08d4e60d022f4ebd720c4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, specifically related to phishing. The presence of multiple links to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3c6689942f615ff388591fb52f4474/guriwegodumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081874f2d34c---wofebolosatimowodogawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a6721673b---82875934403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/55340378013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/vutadobovukifotidubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungpetrohotel.com/users/files/42037701889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///pikekipevoredig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/44383462583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3a7f55aa7---fusilanekevirewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/bezoliwuzalotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070478f15acf---lanigipidejezuraramuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dad5bad8763a906f1d3973b575b18dd/jufotuvajexalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5786lak9178ol7f2itqe12933/zodezibopenamubatowuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075621006b0e---galot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d1f190127---81552923277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1903cc6e---40007589068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/logipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffr5h6hjpnbd2q64kjoj9t5hsu/terureturugomezeron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aecc10a7ce---46680370990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/1655075175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/jebukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/17741223373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c877fd0e97c---ripiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sorry+letter+to+ex+boyfriend+for+hurting+himPDF 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_off0001223f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1223F 16872 bytes
SHA-256: d1c4d41ce7ed4ae3a2292489e84136ba3ce21d21a5a24d7029c474c2b3ec131d
font_01_sfnt_off00014dbc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DBC 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 2d9ddc9a08b426d55db8b905571bb5e59b1bdae76b4b9696fece9b75e483740c
font_02_sfnt_off000166ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1