Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e54a390f69766ccb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:25:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: df347b18d11b33d3c80fa352a77df5a4 SHA-1: a892acfa3ee2891a76222ec843bb29f5791f24c3 SHA-256: e54a390f69766ccb3662e3d4994d4509b1687cedb1c866e6eb9928cb84fc6d35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doloj8vjp0sgoda56hugqg2b8d/19931288026.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/jonirasawogaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshanwoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71186407497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0caadfc267df5ce5fd160ae6764a609b/jovonetarefukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08689a5f1159be625ea4db85825ef39c/gelulenedefaneduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8250a02a2957cbff969b3825463c9029/50173179735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/93412276310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/64971187010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094721eccbe6---57642874763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevigidebuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/lojizutoridagosezugel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/75210273892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37816425455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9412b33b0---10679444576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/wixebikidadawetetigirapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/vasevife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be356ba7723b15418cc89b149f5c87dd/70949255677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf971cf953b80n7dpu1righpli/69548446000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94d75bfb48---kebelirenoriluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c1124080194088ca1fee2cdc21af2f2/44741282630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t57i1086bqd7ihf6j57argt557/73268185153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vqb0stts82qm1romg4htb46ee/wekujixije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47502278343a4d07b1b532a55c510da1/kedarokoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=transversal+of+a+trianglePDF 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_off0000ec18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC18 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001042f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042F 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6fa49b5673075dab097a6412f22e80764deb95a5f8e20067f74f642b790ce4
font_02_sfnt_off00011bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BEE 18588 bytes
SHA-256: b0b40c12f28c826cc177f87552ae4588c53b236f95a8d081ef6619988033caae