Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 056ba34677701fe5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-06-03 12:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d2a1f82e90e637a95de551345a62ec9f SHA-1: 2968ae7e29cf55ed86e313135694f0a3caaa146d SHA-256: 056ba34677701fe57f0921fc51a09af21bdb85fa2a24cbe6dc9dbe7b148bc0f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1650f86e4a---56825137878.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754f61c2db9---89898318466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2f65db1e300448fc9decd9a7b7e5e7/jitavoretomigomunusuxemiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e4d5288a0d2db4394754c86e9a548d1/98376216001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/fagoragotunirovorida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137ec4989fbc68b4bee2013056e44058/17235300740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0412b0259849f7caaeaa04e17eba943b/joduvojarodolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ae16959271321b61dd67a2e51815ec/wumatexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64b3fd4d7fbfc046d334040c959e567/89114411884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/14879616428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846b067cdb---rokumefopoluziziwazarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ea13e887a4fe3b767d5d47a405593d1/90458023053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78cad78be23e3369644488a661edcc14/16663436839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e58b85074c393245726b6bac97e5ad5/37033220701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olqvlujugtr1vsqt5dg5q9k1i5/fomojokasujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202151338164166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=como+calcular+uma+aresta+de+um+cuboPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bf77b71016afa2ef13b520d0ba43d33/29921275850.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e0fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FA 5128 bytes
SHA-256: ab673130b75eb672c23f69a20f3916aef798a699ef22ec5b0b676b64931eecbe
font_01_sfnt_off0000f248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF248 12872 bytes
SHA-256: ac274833df94eb0e9473d65358017558e5cb21c654f7d5407dd454bef6e37194
font_02_sfnt_off000119e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E0 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 9853a4a918762215dfcba51349555ff48d39e56332efe18e2f333ca30d8a5b61