Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55e1461401e5adac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 08:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d81b4eb158b436c6d8fa8b4dac3c1d60 SHA-1: d6b16c3d6394f32e43554596aefcd62c8c3e1730 SHA-256: 55e1461401e5adac611fda56a5ca9746a89e149b96820df38b96030190c6d5a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM'. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further indicate malicious intent. These links likely serve as a distribution point for phishing content or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cf9ca897033630427c052e2c38aaea/tebudexezer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/85995305757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/4892418869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83acee741cf5b52fe7927f90917bbf9/turefupafisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/jenibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/15468089787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf660ecf22---86917615792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35c6363713---kigewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/9136527503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3cklao8e97nl0npqgis7vqu7i/74054224357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/81350430517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifubovibojafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa78f3b93f---3578693829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a22d4119d07dedf5c7fd094fec7957/53332532610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202155533505218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/71187618338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///7337643643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhigh65.com/clients/4970/File/fojuropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a623d63441f62a811c79813d09c95641/97028491351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/88097715070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50d13d825e---255601777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de873d9c6c253317b689ee7fbc901376/karekeduzofubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/34838788310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/faxevunuxenoxigupexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf1c2b17b2edb05f9ba9ed886cb7d1a/6526735291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e2b7c49b24---tenimexudewurunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/35022332804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=to+confer+uponPDF 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_off0000ec4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4D 9968 bytes
SHA-256: fa9b5132a18b387cf8450d2abfb948c04f6e63e2816af6bf938cfe19203aae7b
font_01_sfnt_off00010277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10277 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A89 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 89e8c7d449e91e2f77a6c6ac7122dada98b1ae16f7d954858b4d30b4ba1629c3