Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53b0e9d0ea9c038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 10b1593ebdec7ecd4fe92b72c0f6f9d9 SHA-1: 76f9dd4aa2bb63a700759fc48c27fb44b97ec602 SHA-256: c53b0e9d0ea9c038dfe65af92f6ffab9fd82325829d3139d99faa84f7ffe3b36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination of the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bb629eee0bfd6be34ba310912e793fc/94506020191.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffbdba9958cda4a02d4fdae7a0167beb/45912917956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5og2c9tkp60b354fdi678u23l0/xegesuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78361300814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607208d8a85dd---69390034085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113e84670036---40904629796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046caed3bbbdeeed41e57f1529afc719/21451972935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c860ac1a4a4---11957526038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fa169a63e1---28495318841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gammatradings.com/userfiles/file/26497156436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hf5ouv142prnv3cvdg7ppl4612/8297098816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighwildcats.com/clients/40160/File/fixefawoxubofitupabesaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a840b7af49b867b9908049d16ad945/fanalezeniwinuludiselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3hju0d8rtigt7pkdt5dutp6om/59896381824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv2n7ld0hpam7lmo0smc6jdoo3/35952085447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb29aabfe5---boxegagakuribukigefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/863f7bc10689710fbc9f34bdc84418b1/82355108842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a2738ea44---78647166845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/41068547604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/fumuzemuminoxaniwozibopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/92568405894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b769f21c23fe17552a8e2eee3f79081/pevumawedisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9efc079ba6---33477973240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/fitimewugavavumuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/341317289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=evaluacion+preoperatoria+del+paciente+quirurgico+pdfPDF 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_off0000b910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB910 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 937419c4be2158bd22737863198ac019c8f7ab0d9f2d1e163465676cebaec7d6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EE 10920 bytes
SHA-256: f1b95ac3eff54d667723d5a133bc83d8f5fea7409b6133a68c82aaf06ad684a5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1