Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56010a6743c32b55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 044c0d2ef4283043ca29ff4d6f625440 SHA-1: 603e80f37886acc4cef8511ed1c2fbd4deab6796 SHA-256: 56010a6743c32b5504c72aaa2c1c0bae41811adaea1dd3a097dccf6fb8399176
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites that host further malicious PDF files. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b340d9b97b7958625bf559efd6b638/sadowigafu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdef375dff---42582130154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/juvesejozumijubiporiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchsclassof1970reunion.com/clients/6/6a/6a45fbe13d63dbb0eb8070d7cb9dbc89/File/92326487179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosch-service-center.ru/uploads/files/bezusifadilide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/232605262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90aa979e068b834c81598847bcb592eb/zuzuteluze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73204715145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210505223327731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chetanaus.org/bheru/uploadfiles/file/40102932774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cabc0d15629203d400b19e7e0ac4c76b/2604067306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/145740b341c96cbeeb311eed08208e45/6736574407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57b213d584---simejuvat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/98744368718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0af18f568c3c3781b1bec9650ef86f/51725705808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489af2bdfa726bc9f3bb84a1315ae195/vekumudolifazevigoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tcbvbqh4c6l0ga9as77d0ra5g/jenemaseros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc510c3d5e---zemevujatafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c619534c749491e521fb3c4ff8621393/toxifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d48b52cc2---jiganoligibasovukimiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/rawajakidemudutusujaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/metajomojobazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=nioh+justice+ministry+smithing+textPDF 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_off0000d64c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64C 19208 bytes
SHA-256: 0586b034c9b658223e47feea7a423191cdaff1d77ec64758bd406f51e993f932
font_01_sfnt_off00010739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10739 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F50 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 81c75986eadcdc2793623aa7fa0dfce0d79b1bb1e18079cc6ce287df43b75516