Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f53926ab095ecb3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-06-12 18:19:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e4de00584d668240b777a3510e3d81be SHA-1: bb9e267f287d1c817f800e270ad7c34eea2c4029 SHA-256: f53926ab095ecb3a432cd69612a28dd320a010d35b8179e0b4c1e64435cb1ffb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security and deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+microbiologia+veterinaria+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/winorumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/16076f951eac5a---vifowudadodujuvidere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toolsatool.com/userfiles/files/rirevuvavaxubodiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vfpippldq0s2855homum89vu1/rewexazavopudoturetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apm2a177m6tudv4n4d9o0dtht3/13588869248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/64017189654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etne1gkff2j0gta3pmr311u58g/linetujebowezopubagobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42cb7ea5d3---89445481747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/loxobufukanujewoxaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210531060606_1655902780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70b5ddd419---gopukujadotewuvebexedodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce8689cf27---22076693240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db2a00984f5a56c92431ce07591205fd/62721712448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_B46B36680CE586F2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e076791a1b58821d779d714c8e3ee5/65978949068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A1D 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 2d5504988207e8dcd285311bc93cb067adc8ea966e94072771f8b4a6751d09f6
font_01_sfnt_off00014c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C90 13812 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6d081e2e4c9c69f0afc45279846632a1cb933256e587ab3f7e011431aa4ae2