Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6553ca93e015d29b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 23:29:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 685f2ed27f0fe6a946c2b359b9e170c7 SHA-1: 7ec5cb844cc7e107eddd89e24b067efaef13ff7c SHA-256: 6553ca93e015d29b75581ddba877d60a346e7f2cafe0d4f167e3030b22e95180
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This 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, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a raw IP address further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dcc9e1b92b15840d5ce335c78830366/33612866204.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://doorsatyrau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6015743166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/file/gapozorotaxetusekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73a034f4671314f748a2ba84d6f27854/13059975667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/2006979298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/ribupisivarevozevuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c0c47bc48c2e615c2f0d380062cca8/gewuduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/tozezemozukaropate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c9c6974e263dedbf1ea9468fa84bb2/misupaxokewawasojudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab5ceed986---jofesibusiforig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081430cdf1a1---17205937623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a58fcc8dc---dovepopokixazanafuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe2ccbefb---66505630572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerdynamic.com/clients/3/3d/3d9dba0a3645e5854abf1db7654b9c86/File/40862009635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ddfdcff1b---mijexikop.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/kanutazuzobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdade03caab111832797bb5ba23a1905/10440696606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoldjogsi.hu/uploads/files/rerodulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/mebalonenurukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e692a4fdcb9b78911eb3b491fc91afa3/najosopafel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/files/fibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ej6m168r0j9aupb6nvb622i9e/migolesesabifujifuzarofog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe6548cbb3---bigokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32e1c6fbbc10f9ffc2e65c1ff015d0c8/73895173254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+a+fence+chain+linkPDF 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_off0000e6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B0 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 2171d7ef241373f8942cba0364ab92244ab2eeef476f48e383dad374ab9ad76d
font_01_sfnt_off0001111e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1111E 10504 bytes
SHA-256: fa2fc16cdb7ed654c7287b551fa5ebe273fdc74f44aef4e915a6cf64ab719e8f
font_02_sfnt_off000128fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1