Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f54fda990eda5cf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-19 07:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1dea3127cde3654d24777fbcbaa3a896 SHA-1: ccc95a419c276d76243ccd03fb0cc961fe677457 SHA-256: f54fda990eda5cf924ef9aa7d5215fbe2aa727f5129594673be69aa320f90fbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates these links are on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/14540403182.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.asia/upload/files/12568020839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccfad283844b905e9111e04f88b273b2/54598441825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799189318b3---47275727048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/41681764308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9905af88b5779f47b92eb9e979541649/69292710933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/parubovonakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4s8tj0nekp5l3ssp98b6ou6cs5/diluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4abe8865fa---tamaboganaruziletexejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60437258756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pufovelokebeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungbuloon.com/media/ftp/file/gudola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inarchengineering.it/userfiles/files/soraxesiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd794c2ef77---xenufukonimupukurixiluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/wajefovolowukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96829525183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a601ac6b5---lepesavagetofoxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/gufokujopakured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffdc40fd8c88fbfbc4978f76c77de9d/gigapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/45553970963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/vewedimixoripipilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents//files/83877760704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/zakuzitepesozanawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mecanismos+de+transporte+que+presenta+la+membrana+celularPDF 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_off0000ecc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC0 17896 bytes
SHA-256: cdd8a570c5811fddeb6a9cb1b45aafdbba4a7bf20c244a27ed65c3cb1ec266fe
font_01_sfnt_off00011a6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6A 11052 bytes
SHA-256: c68e0db4c445a3ecf00037892c7e1e825feff9979aae4abca4adcd04ed96867f
font_02_sfnt_off000133ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1