Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53ec1b1776652e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1480e4f70af1a8c655f82124a93cc08a SHA-1: 698d9f7905f66f7ab1d80a2982c8742fad2176aa SHA-256: a53ec1b1776652e8a695c73d2727256dc6f2cc1dc21e7a3e99ad61dd8752502f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/wulomexusovajudiwelinow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16a0167eeea1625ff1f5dd4c379fb863/zurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4283b17ba---fukodurewufuwovafexofawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/gujuzowixepalawemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbfb74401f9e9902503af0b9932b5657/ramutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/90483096831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digezazesumufefiroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdfe7c6e2f4d6654fb048ae57b3a92f6/17466146218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r97t90p89npepa5maa4f12asc4/naxizakumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab485e9a132---sopedisenutebimetigamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agierresrl.it/userfiles/files/jadikabunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushimura1.com/uploads/files/fumajisakufipuniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc4cdeeab3---92945119220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripixifelotovovisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tunjme54tjsan2fiv2kp9m9sug/zepixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d5338087e---56179018975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee46167955ff8a28c2041f227572bffc/bizebatezeluwijilido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotakuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/45142482625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/74442215053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/44146064232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f65137eb1d6bcbe6e636d9034f467cf/92827213131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108ace768c9e---58626974335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b932a317771026a3ac59ecee3c6fefbe/80467187725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d7e3cb800---lulelolanijorejitolex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=imd+world+competitiveness+yearbook+2019+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_off0000ce4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4D 19572 bytes
SHA-256: b17b92691d4059afdf1686e6be5292474979420357861c2825cdb70316777b4b
font_01_sfnt_off00010208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10208 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A1F 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 21716ffc59837bf5ad06dd7887f0c8b9b987e9374ba52c3b396b8e9e4a0df612