Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55320f5550a4fb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 07:45:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0e5ea3eef95396dbc3f5f2ddb6dd7207 SHA-1: b0be9a2d1876e8a73a960b417117f679558a79a8 SHA-256: b55320f5550a4fb6fc467fbabcaeddce2846652af1f00374e671c5f0972a5b89
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of ML and ClamAV detections, along with heuristics flagging compromised CMS uploads and SEO link farms, strongly suggests malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zora+neale+hurston+their+eyes+were+watching+god+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://freewest.at/jazugida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/pisimoxojemupuzolomawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85322558260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/493884321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/zupomisumesegadorawanotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/42160615603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077cb71622bfb540cdaa641bb0b24889/xowetifamapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rwd1.thadv.com/upload/files/70240003467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/bufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/38157463982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wewilodibixubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowositapukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girlstown.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/21637565396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/nesutogokuroleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bfe9ac05ff---bazatezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/fuxolazuwenopeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82352425465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/16108223399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/70035524964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/vutilokemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xedulichhaiphong.vn/images/news/files/sotinevovijufigulefitelob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letsbelegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79853374470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/85798318279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff50de310b---suxagiwusose.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_off0000d05f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05F 11160 bytes
SHA-256: f658eadcf19fdc4903ad742d11c0c45d21d35fc860787b6ff2ef0532837825dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4A 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 18e2a8c9d7ff419d0c82676fe3b9e7268c5a2fdca6be154934a1a1d415a2bd05
font_02_sfnt_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1