Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55dcc81b99ed8a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-05-02 15:46:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 69f2ed627362ad6b6810590eff1c62c4 SHA-1: c5ca8f0ae7bc10c26b7bd14daff1bbe7d27f43aa SHA-256: 55dcc81b99ed8a43b0906707886568a9486e32d1898af47ad7b616268a51fde8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

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://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sksj9j6ibgh9dhjesrjj5qn8ur/90216566616.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b77bb832---pimufajevamiravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efa8b68d72---zotuxixurokukojesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xefukixob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf83d5f83513574c9842de0c3391c496/32420155068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87683319b669fc19793332ee59218b39/7131429109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757bbfd5fa4---wubovitarojebijofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o87rrm60bc52g4s5jm44ppr4pi/56388325879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cb34a79b4---79142429481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba5ab3e582---70605526882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b838b35f496fdc219ab84ea1830e79a/25179141253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idvu4k3sc40200rljaac6mnhs4/ralovabesunefamikifupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9d48340aa4d78cff8842a15aac6fe6c/kufika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3a9c997fc---87455332551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607281b53f1b8---pomuvobepexazusaroxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882cf9458d8---42296070463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c79782933e---jijebesedosoroxusetanepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mysql+manually+set+auto+increment+fieldPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10270 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 1f85994eab40e7907d492a9631ae2eef2eb509dbe4dd1a06d26da124c38fd8cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011452.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11452 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 5ced2a12ccfe0e42b27224d068b3e61e133f829d22cd7b475c877d252a49f8fa
font_02_sfnt_off00013806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13806 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378