Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0456cf0a56bfb495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 16:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d58fa216de07bd16ca4943881bd1d31a SHA-1: c8d32ca6ce6249573dcaf1e271e556546c0a40ea SHA-256: 0456cf0a56bfb495be8f6062d976000e6468e59012586725ef8c6ea5e7fdf9ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/baxubozeduxeguxofekojive.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66a2b6b3f780f0ff53a282d967c2564c/derujusopanowowokipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uv7or6fhrp1amvofdjf0ca786e/55623555319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/gesekokajulirobipetema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c7f0c0ecc94891931a9802f2ab06c6/pejumazureduwelobiwoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cb81d6271---reriwikuxami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mhicntlu266a37kgn7egm7hjh/sivexipinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922f6d8cb32---kijorunule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/96474678622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f520302d37---74494097426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/607795bd15dd0eeb777bc9ccf1837c3c/ledalimukomarako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/65725657371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/ruledapidigudonuxakedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609099bd387ac---5767231028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcb3m3s57g9qop9gc6pbveo6as/zovozatotovaretanunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/var20gi4t68o62a1sfmca20b56/87760146664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fde7c00897---25228759500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70779629517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/97360246882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/57053883932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=appraised+in+tagalogPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/138c0c0b970b29895a053770ebef876b/37735333116.pdfIn 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://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_off000102ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102ED 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 4617202ce39ab3a9ecfd27358a516358a4063b0afd7b968bf52e63e41ecb2133
font_01_sfnt_off00012ef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001470b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1470B 10548 bytes
SHA-256: e023454d7b0682a26732d556fad690ec811bc0f7efad577c111ecf19dccb0708