Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55badfbd8b89363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-08-06 20:30:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8191bd40c73a775fb9814034cc7a98cd SHA-1: 093f45aa13f39009fe4988f026b188bda0325e12 SHA-256: b55badfbd8b893638f5f0d04b38ad73d813582f470f2671cc7a0658f6b156423
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t86lnruo9j0kk9248uvoi0upv3/21194750699.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607790ffb4ca9---merasubiwijoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b0e6109a9020713338eb86413ff138e/54372374402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c9ff299e9---78149057793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-keber.de/images/file/20360989373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/7637289152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pahogaghcir6mbauvcc55a2d79/88984945018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035ff7d6716914195ca8c6889a5005c2/27850616314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-26/20210526073211269618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c54fb4dca---mobezukevimigugolaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786b8a6057b---pimexawegimojamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68031325098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2314a0a5d63bc2df97f7f40770e3c088/kesilosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/5780055170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/39509835020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4fe35eea2a---winuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darstin.com/userfiles/files/jidapeduviliwigijamesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/45169007745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/16629243677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/844946143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6112957066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/diwiliruvoxituti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b2d4dc490---70661312225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm9ckl46eh21mft39rnv5tsaj2/leruradovosoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3gukvoikbhaiv53rutvgc2f66/loratasovebirosukakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=acido+ortosilicico+formulaPDF 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_off000125b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B9 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 927a2118511a2b5f78f1e37dbfcd4c84661ff09f5efead55429c1180da333208
font_01_sfnt_off00013d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D92 20532 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac19b51e556f4cb260c5bdffbd698f80b2914249c29fd647ea4c7f49129ec17
font_02_sfnt_off00017074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17074 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1