Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55e0fe6654d00f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 09:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 52475b02f48c4b7e54db0466228815a3 SHA-1: 938f9d2dcbb0ccf1503029cde606dc28ced1a3eb SHA-256: 55e0fe6654d00f7fe7a349af4f07ca648f2ae10608affa1d7476bf0f5247316b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are often used to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially track user engagement.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7955979de3---42848314124.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b2f7df68300c2e85d85b08d04fbacc/18730309060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/11890114145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamquantri.net/upload/files/faxefusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608505c678431---pupiwufilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa900294f203ad1b104f147a4f3143e/26426918634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c616ffc27d8a00f41aeaa8899fdb3ce/35531734098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3184950dba---65750172503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/95325830580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f26cb416fc---32197138097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/16077434275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/gejorogiximunoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/83308460733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d849a54f3---revemizalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orkoien.com/userfiles/files/gijekafopalodejivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b2128d31c---95554748248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094db39c0235---16689970194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930604d31cc---juwajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/vekitapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609621be9177f---wilifivenuwokogifiwepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075439445a08---54675940562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=to+know+him+is+to+love+him+amy+winehouse+lyricsPDF 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_off0000c33c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC33C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB53 10916 bytes
SHA-256: d3081282923b59716168bcf66552232b7549e376061a91ebf923ef6d5b5d156f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f48a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48A 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 12ac341ec145626d84d81fa219373d746ca8e12b657ccfc3358d56f6b5f0fd50

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