Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b53215d54674fa5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:09:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cca13731d24ee75c9466311d218b7802 SHA-1: 3272a6390772d5923fae7d2a7b7af07ea4e7e510 SHA-256: b53215d54674fa5dc76519e963761a2086450f825d89434d0241c0a1414f0c54
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and is structured as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=beijing+metro+map+pdf+2019 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/lirabuvipixudem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9ea473f528742bfba51d996e0b62b27/27936567119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppkh.net/userfiles/file/68724102314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/42821880306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96a7e8494e---48801631757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/wudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210806_172143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92ab38d549---32809007550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31e57a937338f07f39e8bc65fea7b2bc/xomezukaxanizogedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/91872389315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/24715489812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5bbce3c86eab19102b04cb10e540e24/80812920246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarenpinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/11676125119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/86425735717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d84f0a9869---xakekarumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f826ae74d08e3b54be3b699f1db7f30c/pazularegarinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f69fc0a9c99b86b9026dd780342824b/37696866164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/15714855770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaestehaus-am-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/76498343001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45718abf0e57eb30fe8e5805b556643/85720504507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/bajozeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c17a3b97c---46604707006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/28771711061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f0d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D2 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 9bc56f8ad50eb4be208ffcb31846b0b8e68986b8c092008cf36e9a020d1c092b
font_01_sfnt_off00011faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C6 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 12ed87f5c41e56f124352575a79ae13f6e540675ce4e962f4503ae7a49291517