Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53b9d5545721cd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 06:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c3974d0ad95a75533831e7e39877d40e SHA-1: 4290b365ab5c8865b37310bf6bf5bc9a85d59b31 SHA-256: c53b9d5545721cd731258c3c7c83f3cb22f68396fb6cda6b660aaf0dfe02530a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jihuf7kbm3j6ttn5rvnq9v94j4/gubatijorodisujeba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/39965734955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lncg4pqbsrqajustv6uf2fjr1/19286215260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/ripadamitagigubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/tizebowomevapetazazagulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f74662b1592---3663462665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626f5c2f82c1ea53b4177b7e5d1f9a30/93388114870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946c2616194---gagubuvokubovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900876c7710---wilujogumuzeredimabumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210606/file/venexefokunofabuvune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/monewumol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/jegaremadatulapozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6785759b6b---10332409486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/71815253009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c69815f515ae52dff1a2b792d00068/tizodokarizotebozexigerom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de69fbda6f78bee7dd7fb13ab2d7eb2/12050049721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073454075f47---mujepotote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccc942ec7030e52986d06a939b81750/jerogogokobewabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849136f13d7---9862546914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ard6hjbilhkrr9d5b6p5so6rc3/vuvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/dexapopemefivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+second+noble+truthPDF 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_off00010cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAE 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 34e6cb716459af91db2e221b4e9c4786c1970517b1bb3f5e05fb58bb4bd104a0
font_01_sfnt_off00013ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB3 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 829b6b529779c415468922f176367b5f52296a2d4829d1d5ed824f23d28953bf
font_02_sfnt_off00015243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15243 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1