Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a54611ede6453029…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:18:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 657529e64b754bbcf6dddda622f21844 SHA-1: 0e019826397aef259de9c1ff5d0a4396a912510c SHA-256: a54611ede64530296f7a616c97f006e680008a56f303347a88ab594d15d861a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall heuristic profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://hanleyresources.com/images/dasuweronavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/77887508653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613925f007074---54713009643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/8520923264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/24825703502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinocelltech.com/filespath/files/20210914184347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/jarepakifupuwifarexeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/kepuretokiguremejip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/73087652163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341896cb3df---77052607922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613123d098e30---77668712875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusuvejagejekuwijedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210906031554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andymullinscommercial.com/home/andy/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumopiwokagalawutate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/83206929726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45904459053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzl-pro.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/47096213026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nariximinananasulasabeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0326366001631844190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138631b4048b---70811325138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.xn--kpry57d/upload/actfiles/73491177567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37035913547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/luwolale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheumst.com/upload/fckeditor/file/towotosinuzowegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=calendar+countdown+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000e81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81B 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 80611a8ee87b545e93ec11db125478e5855588d088000c4ad2d2d3e7fb4662ab
font_01_sfnt_off000100ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AC 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 7f4717273c5d0ef0dfc74af4f5351008a5a6f4dc017e3ff5a566fa5470dedbe8
font_02_sfnt_off00012e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1