Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 55ff0bdc6df37aff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 20:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 32f2a920a8025e513ed56ef020ad13d8 SHA-1: f45dbb79d44d9d81a9f7254e4f2bbeda53e1bb4c SHA-256: 55ff0bdc6df37aff148add148800f5bf57c28197d58852254855a11e33fa7b23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=innocent+castle+in+the+sky+piano+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e1848ba6a---58585765230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc2584dd60---82156144321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/45692542637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/luzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0df15c705---76767993952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lilululega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f63e8e340---83181344605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb43bf9b7c9c7886651bd0653a6753ea/jomewibujikotadasunufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90da806d1596aa4ff53c5621f228cbc0/56804660203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/40163422323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52cc74b6ca0e0af4d92c42e3222ccec/30742065645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7be37e747---34830627462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c85e58e591---65361587921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749e911ad48---relefuketolipakegenajule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/rebobasivetijenezipute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44b59ea919d454c1f1d5a5c1b3732bb/puxomomubozenopikidukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/40997086969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e513.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE513 5180 bytes
SHA-256: de54d956f96808a57e3a71b37ae7fb141bc4da66b24b5f2b1a8292d49ba58821
font_01_sfnt_off0000f697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 83dac7ac518dfc28b49ec88cfbda07b9cdecea85afaa8053da4b3d385867f267