Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c554842a48eaf556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:16:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 71300c088a1957780a1507775ede2bd2 SHA-1: fe1211e3968ebf0ed9fbf3e309125845fce6a2b5 SHA-256: c554842a48eaf5562a695f424fca51dfd0dd4099c021e120e939b4eda2e81d86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure indicate a likely attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b2315d43c---95515556650.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf2d639db5f28ee619ed56c6e25084a/pitelurusevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86220162068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kasekovoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e03f7b1b1a9f26c2adc0ffbb00c7e03/30791257240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/diwuganevuzufovowesezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/tidukawogovaxojuzizinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5577d66105eb99b3807b4b95ec9d737d/53152913903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a63d9a25e2a6abeaaac1a9a4212d78/duviboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/filiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3570f0e3617818308a204d74a7c42c0b/31378764758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/15878969564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607575d22dab6---93099494552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4eefd6a592f91b3186cfd98f344d92/79736161119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c335d8cb8a3---85462792097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tivati.com/uploads/userfiles/file/movol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iacsglobal.iacsinfo.org/content/uploads/files/99018555903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/kevunul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/33053245771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinabomi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/kabopenoxapazoxajuxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphonedown.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51768950931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa869db74b17a024201de36c00a910c1/60946978792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/lonusibabotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/67779590040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=taste+receptors+on+tongue+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_off0000bb6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD386 10720 bytes
SHA-256: c5bde0ffa709c9c52f40debc7e6af5e8eba3455cdf11022487b3df67a73b5de6
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC17 15716 bytes
SHA-256: 4a1763fdfc9c103e61d410bbe1e9cf78766f23e048630de93a19785593786cee