Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d553acb559f6b825…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:54:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: be4d251e9afcd20d747e3c5c55965139 SHA-1: efacabcf65dd25a3c1cb09a0ca5e433520789521 SHA-256: d553acb559f6b8252e0e76b9ccea33893901b7d89366fe85f5d101d05ad1c5ec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests a phishing or malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://delve-cr.com/uploads/22895337706.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/fuzana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/20820077980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3vjl40vle28vqk5ic8as3ne65/fikedelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/28670742673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurpinar.com/img/userfiles/files/dasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/wivawusedefivagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5rlnt9rpeodqb7evrd3bs0e67/87279029937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485aa5c362a2e7c26df1c9401c724998/45193763733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqu2627rtssa0b9ocoe01uust3/85733581194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/48367773002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b834516413fa06b98748ad5349965b7/44021938670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/xipowinoxanoguzanuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c012ee0e62f7654a8915b7ca39e338be/99130652359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/96511134585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/3711546394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e991604b8---41103382947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a02bfbcfabe4ba65dfc9427781b68c6c/70593912476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e517e36d02---71571046269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0afab6d70a---mabedanuwenidamasurozudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737425b905b---77772120706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/59247337961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/52724632600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+ink+off+skinPDF 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_off0000d8bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D4 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 9618bbc86c9213e8a03ee9c080fb12079ea8faef450a736f819280770300ce8b
font_02_sfnt_off00010809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10809 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 4f818d4f869c94bb182c4bce59df37ef8f704198983124c41c657e90feb07d39