Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c56321abaebe49a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:07:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 89f998b8e2e53333e21f7b339502c8e7 SHA-1: 1271ceafe668cf7a26026136865a04d7b00ae341 SHA-256: 4c56321abaebe49a5be575798fe3ea8374396142f666a3457553b869c2dc3d26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution campaign, potentially using a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=google+maps+without+business+labels
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49d6f3f7d5---jazudovarap.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngko4o7pq28fehnla5js7p7ksi/nixunasuwoxugafa.pdf
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/78923776420.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986357ee3cd---letilagasixixome.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/132d86a7000a97c737748e950fcc93ba/zoduda.pdf
    • http://better-pharma.com/images/file/files/melaxuruna.pdf
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/gokega.pdf
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tefezata.pdf
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/21829308912.pdf
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/pufovepixujatopuzowazaju.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c195255fe30eccc78a480a68302f301f/1219786952.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0a52dijcpkd0h73iv0ag8pbsp/6742244365.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/062357513862.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb04a0b0e6---sofufubizaramexemamuduse.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25a5c97e99---98319192327.pdf
    • http://worldwidefilipinoalliance.com/uploadedFiles/files/87565716876.pdf
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/fekebapifagugivegudop.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bf9825d15---pasiza.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070eba610baf---50362394162.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qf24d8fbem5be3a9rj0to9k9uj/soxodevuvubuxabiv.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fb8f25554251cad766e9a0379bb68b6/bupigovilepet.pdf
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/74194769366.pdf
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/kunesunibevanaxoxa.pdf
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b30e8d714c0eebe50d51d38ed1be8fe/38137089197.pdf
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b0388aab6---75561792769.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088daf80fc75---zelewex.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f83a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011051.bin
182789b369e3ba73024c5889ee187d5cb24c7f7d127472c3d146f2bab6f2321a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11051 10964 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012978.bin
7b1e4d46effab755ef389803b298abcc122bdc7438eca6bbc6e88f21055521e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12978 16612 bytes