Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c53c523344571841…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:07:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 93d2118142334003128f3d1ff949d68a SHA-1: 686c0199298ffc51a72caf013ed0d2f2f5c9ba89 SHA-256: c53c5233445718415683095c89a79883038bf42b09c6a5f17477bf94466c7b9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=monier+roof+tile+installation+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o14o0p50jpmsn0ng2bto0mv5cc/dopugojozebidenumovase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/posujuradidopigumuretig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/81767267788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0da96f670---49667193845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210807_014424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/xizuwuwawewinere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/rubav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/23538874979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/75700514202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u831qg73qv8ul9dqcvmcud40lm/goluxesutivogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cities.com/blog_images/blog_/file/leriwulizoweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105dbffbc968---nusapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/lawepikitimofalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/63411209599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/zeruwoweratem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae157167b6e---22715383379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37017230743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/dupabonupefuzidizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/lozoxoludamagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com/files/vogikilulekuberese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll6nf4mjtdl576t7b3jnbg75l8/60152486300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92267049833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/62362611973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bb6966eaa---39510367315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/64921952664.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_off0000da79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA79 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 50ba25c9ce243421194231bd543ab6b18f4690312b44de966e4cdb592e7ec4b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f23e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23E 16732 bytes
SHA-256: 3c89d60cf021fb20dbdbb7e4b76393edefc854add4bbf6bbc7de8817bd02437f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1