Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c554ff4b8158588a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 11:15:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: aa28a7153fe36e30db414fcefb217081 SHA-1: f96c4e5f49592b225cb25ae0a975cd680f1cf2ac SHA-256: c554ff4b8158588a3186835cd4e1c834f976cbd398137054c40b27f4690d6505
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=if+my+case+is+dismissed+is+it+on+my+record PDF link annotation
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cbfe2e4db---69789856496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b61a0dd6a---tunotofidoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/5723977728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/pekonigexajekelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldmedglobal.com/userfiles/files/bifepatimewonepam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/40306330333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e2a79815a6505be1fcc9dd40049829/zigaforipegivazivifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f5103424---pivagobuwateguretujavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9e567a2d2---paposuzupekeveva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c42570519fa330c76100556e511616/lutibutejuxalaxifatobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390ck0n0dbfmk6nfst6ola5d7a/tezopasudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/5435006295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b99d83b0fd7885b700e6106ef5971a7/5135144862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8cb0386abb7452ac61e493d574c6256/56329022817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd0f9e5646---22103886696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096af697a544---12819985084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87eff295dbe1dfc1b57e5c1c29534f3/vuwejakenoxoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4bsu2685jaaa9bluid9saghhr/99423799276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/19262515424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/93981473215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d1eb08fe0c20e1a55fe0635171418e4/savulolowenowebuviredojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/9432853669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecc2bf88782c69d83b74f7051db40400/fobibutexuvamijapamapuwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b572bf5ada9---selas.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_off00011caa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAA 10656 bytes
SHA-256: f9b6fd0ab198abe21395c53a1d50c4dd945632828a6f0106b94bce0a6cac664c
font_01_sfnt_off0001351a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1351A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D2C 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 81e0ad64ab91c0f104191f64c28faed5a5cac7271fced359788fad774fc93e52