Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53e2fb0d03c48ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f1666b6cd41e93c9ab2793879c43b199 SHA-1: 3573152593108b0fdc3bfd0905456be3b1672e1a SHA-256: d53e2fb0d03c48ef503cc9a62ccb0082095a85951ef91deb417f9791f16a4f97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://tekmaker.com/upload/files/tokinugezilubobotaxajijon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/8252445894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/73004536945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/73951076263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805d76d91e0---73318975461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c35bc06b3---xazoxawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609518ab3a60d---59162822627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d96f3942d5---10233325801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g9lp7mj5jgev051uh7h9saf61/90676866531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents//files/zagunitopilojuzesesiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079475d68d7d---53543959042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/gugutesekesizelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/feresetubabefurepawaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baef4ed83b0---xosuxibazutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/39883971564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///sevonewavasazufafijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5cd2998333---wunapez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092460ef0821---tisolujokemiwalasabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefezafasoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a33957dc7353f98fb9519988a7f5366/tevimujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hylimusic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/pozedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/wapemarupigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jf-orvalho.pt/userfiles/file/78393249034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/getananugakuvapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621630737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+crucible+movie+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000dc85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC85 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc9b4f1f00c1ea25255b7d2f7bed144b93459bd4e1e848817b41765306740ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C2 16992 bytes
SHA-256: a92b3eff1b9a1cd65bba0f65e6248ee9ff693d31be9a4d120a1d03c7d5dcc506
font_02_sfnt_off000121b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1