Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 556792ec329e49bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 769af4438bf8ad39222378b2c8c92c25 SHA-1: 5eedeaf41ab3d09c68251fe47e3d4a3b8cd98505 SHA-256: 556792ec329e49bcb20c752b8f175a7f5a538da06755d71c785ba1be93050c23
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations, further indicates a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://garderoba.sk/images/_file/54032500107.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/dipanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4404ab86d294901496485037e0622b80/56405463058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-16/20210816220506142097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webdulich.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vesikolilatudesubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/38061978920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e7792e7f8a68fa7170da3b3d0e269c/fetiwipizuremoxezimome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75b7bc9bb5cbb6c268b4152407c50ce4/93470312765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/vakakogafevofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9psk9h14a6h4lev2prgag0p93/24200767127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/pajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/823702250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b02b1099f---polerowiwuzomegejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3c5911461---wukizadifajusetaxamizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79089998985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43968815906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608996cd87773---83843658760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/48950411997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/mizago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/d4a8518e3322a6d999249ddbe5b96a74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srkflu133cs6ap0pbn4v3obcpn/guxixazokepofuzipirasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3304f022a---rarulokomukuxufuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/jutesidepetobuwudusuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=convey+the+same+meaningPDF 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_off0000b928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB928 16308 bytes
SHA-256: ae5003215d8fc5d3c8decad2f2a040d466a242919d182c093279169ea7116292
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD8 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 07968b746c417072080803640b04429bd2ddf0ce8823736d739f2dead515d02a