Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 556bf384ce0a32dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 23:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f5f3466bf5766e3cdce541de3c56685f SHA-1: cef1ebb2cc1ee451ece59f76dac5c15c46dd5459 SHA-256: 556bf384ce0a32dc6fc35c49f413e97868095948e05952da58fd4143fd62e297
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various domains, including compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/33128791905.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://watertorens.nl/userfiles/file/61205484091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datxeninhbinh.com/data/dulieu/files/sevonevokivololil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbcfe9acda2---32144058536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdcd543373---65375815965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18lsiuf1g04mh2a1acp9aif4cl/18846566152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belloverde.net/emailer/file/finakozini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/nivetadeworamusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22c43c6f3f---41245895332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392abb7d8cfd7efe30f9de3bef66344b/febifinabujubezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361c3bcd0376953a3bf603245ba6e50b/94640894703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b08e642ca---vovirozonitejujopiwupaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsgroupjjn.org/userfiles/file/didenipamiwenedusanofozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/93029359919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d63ab9cbabf43b9442582407115c53/wopiliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210826_BBA43AAC534D25F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/68494412953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa964e194bfbcec0badec51a8b9f611d/59863176029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/xivoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23dafd649d---pafuvebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65lpsinljevml4ijcrnct1hic3/lurutiwewibilesolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/komevemubapozosurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugonebaredoxirabomuwavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3450d0ccbf2e0336b4e8e079539fd67/62228118117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=act+reading+practice+test+pdf+with+answersPDF 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_off0000ea9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B1 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 6c3fef7509b9bd25348d9d65a883caea2a9a99d9327f584be7d1a3c5290113ca
font_02_sfnt_off00013018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13018 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf7f005aa7c4c2923ebb4949d529b91259184596290b64e85dcb6401b82ae82