Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53a98c3bd83f54f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:54:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f7ec4ff7de563afdebf4f6b4d59ad4b9 SHA-1: 4b57c26bcd57a4f43bc4fe75d125e6cf5efe9f26 SHA-256: d53a98c3bd83f54f2dcffc6989679044afffe1b1e44d61ff113d591a8ca78b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to external websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it functions as a link farm to lure unsuspecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/08-12-06-27-59-73.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dallassymphonyleague.com/clients/1/14/14bb4a025281f1a32078cb68571f7cf3/File/43536351642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cd6807fd4---pakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/dopilogafofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/palipitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/purogiwakivifalomipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/73286589511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/39891096237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec7ed018ab76546691f103794065aa27/44926999511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84qe4fsv5jkmm15m8ldro833p7/saxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2109848be---xanokomedurasixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/zawejuzuxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egf.tw/test2/images/file/354986550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab01e6be86---matopufamajawagesexoropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8bf2a433ab---41908915633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab2265fbf6eff98a47d2304f596ca69/sakaxemasoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5b6b08487---92967778220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80313874876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetradeshow.ir/uploads/files/deliku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/kefosorunatesabejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/venenosemujiwabufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/79562654230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/vaniriwejami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej3r8rvq8pf524j4bsh958h980/govilego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=no+of+island+in+andamanPDF 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_off0000e07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07B 19012 bytes
SHA-256: 6e04ff3e9d9c1f0ac6ba9affae138d8503b2a1ec05b11a2876ebb288cf195eb8
font_01_sfnt_off0001128a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA1 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 04d19e7ebedfff557657fbcf56ff796778c7d72788076e7d5d616f5634e5908a

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