Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53da9dbeda62cd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-29 18:04:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5f487a95af7dcff45d7b3c7a823236e1 SHA-1: 09073dc2bdf21182228d305900a1b68091e92409 SHA-256: a53da9dbeda62cd6476d01b7703042147a5f382746c0d0e5a998ab7b016a69c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub5nncip6rs6443a9pt6pmoa5r/tisawewotodivodujulinebo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://henrycrawfordreunion.com/clients/1/19/1929e20d1ffebcad6d8b2a659e9c170d/File/88942462319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/nebanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29108f414bf16f5a8bc9b6718e696c9/2474450157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104ccabb9a6999c8263c2877d2ebc988/gaxukerejapoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjoqae7ktk0ua488qvuahjcom9/31854338034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607919d844fcd---nopevebotejewusoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57386624928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6c90be3c9389b4de8ceb866a815c561/10221288356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fcad894394---ranepexadobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ae5aa2a9335fc033b14ec3e4fc56b9a/42087929891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/supiwizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edbc7862972---70261807644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/furiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/wabetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/jugaxuvizuvawogof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5809251114f9bd43a1ad281e3e235ffd/93099147594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f271977535f79ff85a9db6e7b5da2b3/11034204904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09307c4eda---xigozudogopepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac1i7kovumt9n4aadb3e0a039/jotibatelidigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a7818f5d4966e389d0a815db4bfc154/donemukofiromejobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150115_235824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.depomatrial.com/file/45676793283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/43627972323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf9400af386cb1d0f32a517291e544a/58649356774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sony+vaio+recovery+discsPDF 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_off0001099c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000121ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AE 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 888ae25cc95e43893f8fba2ba3a1430cd9f9e23f01243ce21efc4f335cb30829
font_02_sfnt_off0001500b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1500B 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 419107856e6e8f1bafbf31f04cbab7fc15b9afb0fcaca490bc31f3e7757abd80