Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55f1509d45258cee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-18 07:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 21b284c61128ffe76493c89be836b4e4 SHA-1: 8d6b93b27300013e451df0956e157f06d723cbe8 SHA-256: 55f1509d45258ceef00ccf7c9819c75466623a2be5da9ca5e0318d904d86a856
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The numerous extracted URLs, many hosted on suspicious domains or compromised sites, reinforce this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e87db63866---sakena.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91qkv7agr8rtoppv3eh7sn49v7/15044592601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/62725527776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6bd5410ad---tagulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/mususetemexuwoxuturitubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/bufewuputesufeniwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hockeydh.com/files/ups/files/favifegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/3963233233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9910730c0a---16767084798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d9b7ac6c---jojamaripaxijiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c63c52695---3103667153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5a8055d94fcb398caf9087e7d5062a4/lirumiruxidugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///paponekuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/tawajaredutif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb2e8d4a1d---vufetenunotud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/fejunagidutokoxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj87vjfv54n6p14a4juroh2vs2/94039734390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lupesufalewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcb3eba78c---silijezononizidoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demijifefivewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/50490096948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pgsntdqo7a2ao56faj27ogkmo/gitizuvozofinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/semaditilogopabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=angular+velocity+related+to+linear+velocityPDF 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_off00010bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000123ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EC 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 232d22199b5861c932669768d119513cb23e2188b9546c1cb4370756cda52b0e
font_02_sfnt_off0001541a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1541A 10636 bytes
SHA-256: d0c2bb4739e4dbacd5245a6bb8f6181cf310dff7ab31052600427f8ccc71c425

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