Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f555b833741aff55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a817f7bf12764a7ec8f0925022bda233 SHA-1: f23115cc565905584927bd7c8ff76715f5891233 SHA-256: f555b833741aff55acc67cdfdf8aa91690fd688b82cff047afdb1a792bb2d112
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f2b1fdbc13---39807538827.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nluserfiles/file/82045599404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d0eb981212---rapupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89395856292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43646403398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vcim9nd67q2g4ggkh85imdgu7/83179419496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssllcmhqslnrfbfn3edm9r1555/22872293752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/xatiwonupikutanuzozupaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816da37803a---40935008516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31q3493kr341hpvgeg1utjc05b/kawuwefakurafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a2edf91898ddf4e10635fc163d768d/makazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d6e72fa3f---sonoguburewepirezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73ab02163b---28511110366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/288560338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/36421001765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/88121789017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4809f55041---juxabazeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redelejarepemiwuzibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/nefunepolojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/39094477913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943814c9db---12553649955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bomnuocebara.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/papomalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamtomchabahai.com/uploads/files/files/96321898410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/73519772628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=canadas+wonderland+map+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0001081f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081F 18992 bytes
SHA-256: d95b6c86eb30b54d4ad35972432d9db8ea37b6e8a256063bec87e18cbd24ad07
font_01_sfnt_off00013a15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001522c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1522C 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec48b8e9f8af4293a34a74d919f7bcac91eb46e47359aaab9eb48e7be58b994