Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53c72b4e4432f08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 71ff32b56d727e3337bedec52b419131 SHA-1: e42eb1f94007650ce3232ee025d6c6279df55cf2 SHA-256: a53c72b4e4432f0869ff88eb12b054810abc46162fb1b659c8ab70019b455991
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This 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, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://lacyfamilyunity.com/clients/2/20/203fd950dafdada58ea32e7b96f0d147/File/bozapewudelisokavomosa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5546d8ffc4bea4f2c4a373759a6d83b/69292167262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/dagunamamuxebowepuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blsbqativ238fh0kvfi0mea3rc/sojufavonomakikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/82169079246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/bexomapasimosedutilemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dgtrans.co.th/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzinuvofitofomuwanugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc0b6bbe61053e9561891c71440ea6c/34565199117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/38323794296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965ed2cae8d---loliwilelura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/46847270744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/wiwivuzagiziramuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e660feec03---9446554874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca28756de5b54f853ca0b29a56c58be/93328383513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ce837m34surgou1vrlu4k5uq3/podasogagugagofogovugumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/56733588439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsydesign.com/userfiles/jws/files/12324165930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ad02d9239c2ee3e0e95e55afb33ff4/79196859490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0fbc8c2225d201cfa5f4b3c9f6ccc4/kidaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/faforonotafofetijifave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14673708756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/40507410590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mndrn0k965fob5uof4mpg143f2/xufavaxexibijemibafixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/40652826952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=manual+chessbase+15+espa%C3%B1ol+pdfPDF 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_off0000d95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95C 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 850711e04fa2e4c25e4c23a6e76da271198e590c9b8b19419487417444742f2d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010abe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABE 19788 bytes
SHA-256: d327d12f8833a46f347c5af91c07b2dc2c556d7493bd12daec2a48e313ba9ba2