Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5056baca65dfa501…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 02:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 5db7e098d797441c51fe7e0722409786 SHA-1: 38b6b02932f6000016ee18d8ed2cfdf4fbefdb53 SHA-256: 5056baca65dfa501798592334b9851846e4c44fb131e109c54aef7e837f7eadf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a book title, likely intended to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+curious+incident+of+the+dog+at+midnight+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d155fe18---13508160391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/57170080400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/jiluzuwasakojanuwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807bef505c0---75406081387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940feb3d275---35344291589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcac621d4c---tunaseveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vogutufubuwexifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/61682186947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3687cac6d---nomara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b313a87f9b2413b1fa00e280bc0f4b5/958982201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/11611583108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dac43ec55991d6adc0510f12661075c9/85730679397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi2k5m7p1f3898g2lhd7ftr524/gunibobofaredujowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/690203bbf253959320af23c5902f4cdf/61746975283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce9815822c8d7a02b67420033ed5748/9923560509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9762ab9d340d85af2abf931fc0b8d4a8/77337890233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbd75c3694---wiminifibubonakesusufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4D 5488 bytes
SHA-256: 08ee47acda18282e6f5cf129b90603ee2b31aa41441063660165240fd3da088a
font_01_sfnt_off000130ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CE 12824 bytes
SHA-256: f1e3489a1b8895945dfacb88d0ccf183ecb5e92a459038f2b20a04249a0f7eb9