Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b54155e811f7620d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-08 00:02:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d9702e00be7e28ae2f81096e8eb36a3c SHA-1: 2464c951bba50107a3719d74e99785aa5392e43a SHA-256: b54155e811f7620d70f4a14e466c2f6d79da8b930ed1f941b2605875811ae960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to potentially malicious content, strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://spiuruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23517163210.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c716e3d62ac---29034689036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/wokamijodebovedebawusifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/vosilafizafakufatetisovud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37fb4eaabf6fced5e9983c5cbbbcdf7a/gebapeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/rakagefumazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/wodavine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d306bba3f76---sinunurowibuwigamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000b148f043ff029c053a782e4a5f5c6/11661707773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7182f7712c1ff907164f08dc9b06f308/petavobovosarexufubege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5a659c3dc---26366334369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dafe74276d9---23195476770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15028bvrni02mo59r9gba2l0q0/gudez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/24847646093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a59513da60e498d5a0b89b926e8cec2/newuximepowajoxubomefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18063eec14---reginexefutariwisuginelug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a022ace8803---tadubujuzunepuguret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58bfaa24476ca9274a4c03763095e0c/36453223938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/25059244850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20674829670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nb5qmsb2h69sk644dvuej7rr72/xemaxebezofodiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/buwixaviviruwoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/varebaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=dj+sandal+benjo+mix+mp3+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d58a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58A 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 5ec564a7b1b9b406756a034178f3d292a9d840b2ab72ad5d275ed6e6328e77e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7C 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 6dc45deee1a373ea250774eef62bfa2ee08e70a522f0917ca2c87827c42db51e
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1