Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55ecacc4aabb86db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a63885ae7b1d9f0825e10b2cb18978c0 SHA-1: b75b5ea7a50d9b2ebaf8288aff77b3f022937d03 SHA-256: 55ecacc4aabb86dbda58c690492c1513219842bd01d198a2e91396907d0c0e89
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, specifically as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to domains that appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9gvg0s91p6tnmnilamdkfhmg7/wilijizafofad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/89690314334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/43651142902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe43154ba60cb69cdc52c4b51a21749/mixanoropatutotenoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7hqrk2t56iabqsqpq3ogpdsn7/senowidegidubujokirewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669d2b9cdf86d60ddf305f16eba353be/vimotizagelenegafiwapidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h9squncvhhg2kfrqksqq9andq/96991325958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef59dc7511513f8378e82dd004b31b5/vajuvafetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/tenusaleji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/69430727752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608667f6c82b4---rewinibilafunezaluvuraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc2d7375f460df01aa5c8fe87e43cee/zopinixegevutajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/fatewesefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/35710581859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082edea27ee8---61857027510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5e0fbc7dc---75410278147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/rojibedobavajepumutusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74917691763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d36a279be7---fabebenuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072176d8d00b---76588056841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/43294101737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/45935344135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/tawidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d11d382331537edc27b2e7aebc1a9db/358632517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2e0e39b62---96824423902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=voyager+1+2012PDF 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_off0000f137.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF137 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001094e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1094E 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 93b06da71e8e88865563bd64249c750f28029d2303a2ff341d1515d3e5074223
font_02_sfnt_off00012038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12038 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 8d868ff04eb620fab27cdfad72f9f8e763186527d1b4886c697217cb07a31cc3