Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53e64bd40b31771…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:42:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 098f554a1705b4e8eaeff623635684b0 SHA-1: 28e1bddecb2d0df0e2f075746f3af46f4843b8f4 SHA-256: d53e64bd40b31771d89e62f8ab8c8fbfece6c889dd9ee5e9aae841ba95928093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which host further PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7468829685f4825fda38c8d969eeac9a/52445295449.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/bidirojovuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839ca2abbe---68800105835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0fb133ff7652b63d9c91cdcfa543467/fefujejuwudagiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ce4982242---zebenokijelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbf7de0c1c---53077146902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/judedazalejasobatali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/muzazepumakisemudinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/saguniviwudupesisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soft-print.pl/app/webroot/media/files/10915180384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7118b668c---25099690680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50063d253d7b3d90ce4b768137bf500b/pugagevitijeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e12157365e8ddc3f55bd00abd21a5682/11217502543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609058d441289---bizuvibotuwutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105290334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ef42a0b26---54210401079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210619155514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f5406e0a62---robosofepakupeluberutorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded95c43b0b714a10b135ab8dd8058aa/80078765188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/92397046543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=george+braque+famous+paintingsPDF 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_off0000f922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF922 11080 bytes
SHA-256: ed7a3e10f441e2eb57a8f2ac93b5514acd97cc104412e5965b882b0ad9322cbd
font_01_sfnt_off00011279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11279 17792 bytes
SHA-256: beaa04ee131d7ea5ef02daa6d40ad1f2984521358b652ee07046b2bfe108e7b6
font_02_sfnt_off000140cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1