Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53973388667c6c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-10-03 00:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fa4b16d785758d540b13a60bde2668a9 SHA-1: d161348db3bf1014545b134333bff26c1458ecab SHA-256: c53973388667c6c4f8629a58892435da93ebfef6422ba213b8ce242752e857d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting domains. The embedded links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://calienglish.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/bogidodibitukifawekad.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/63446904152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/41947519533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/20330620216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38u496bm18fv5l79pmt0vh57c/bupifetugatir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66136877918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngenadmin2.nextgenphotosolutions-beta.com/app/webroot/files/file/97923500269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/24220373872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c7e3d0od6urvbjdgeu6lc9rl/22887079954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_CC033D78281B4FC8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/binikurozujelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f97d80d1f3---61753809259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/furediferujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah88.com/contents/files/razosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgroupsrl.com/userfiles/files/23252658683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46otfva23pnfj6pvebtdnjrv2m/30819597432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0800-707-808.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20211001222808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekezuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/74039872119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/63595701760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marugame.hk/editor_upload/file/84324770634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341fc48e67374e6afb9daaa4ff350ddc/xixelasidozumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+say+go+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000aff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC802 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 96881e771954f5bde08fae997eaed8d76d439bc29ab457bfe8b874beea3313c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF238 10584 bytes
SHA-256: d3a25b42aa2297c2342181e34fe47ef8ef425def514555979f2bbb116cecf975