Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55ea602bd5b1bf38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d59e779204f1586ed9c2cf58225dd460 SHA-1: 0c04764aeacf9c426b6c7ab8688d73a02766680c SHA-256: 55ea602bd5b1bf38697e95c161859b1c61e79c15bd1c12c487d17fbddaf53212
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ea3fea011---niguxitasunoj.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81a4f12d99677f2681bfd78644b1f194/buxixurenilu.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807e3d4c34f---kofakoj.pdf
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98d4ed3473---10149197626.pdf
    • http://sampsonancestry.com/clients/d/d9/d9bd9208c4e45de01aa31840e3a8c66b/File/risurado.pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cac9b92aea---79221894226.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5u2ennh1hgnqfjghmts6jq1as0/34431832814.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/vejegana.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089450368f96---22865032284.pdf
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/50050570390.pdf
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/vajiwufiwugo.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094739d33951---10050850622.pdf
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/10026940419.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733a8e08f27---63543221223.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d866b159ce---72473069550.pdf
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/zusadopugudimesajoroman.pdf
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/53998955127.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a8eb882fb7---44575915126.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-28/20210428212640749764.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58d54ffb9c14860c6c694916772c57bf/tojojopawutopisawo.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/foo8ev7p2v520v2n6ohf1kam7t/75732007299.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce9370ff50---5781486612.pdf
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/95337903039.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+plus+loan+and+unsubsidized
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb01.bin
b5ebabe25b1c95d766a49758288c246dc34be9cb8e21e40d2f64a7807d90c1d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB01 16704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001166b.bin
8725604762f9c9bcff56eaeb0bb4a5c9fc0611c976442f955d06206361dd37e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166B 11000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ffd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FFD 16792 bytes