Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56241ef214d18a9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f01783dc3052c59c0ec232b7d1bb126e SHA-1: 7922cf642a0a4f8c8e8adfe81ed1b036ee2eaaa7 SHA-256: 56241ef214d18a9c9b4ac746fc6b98cf323c43c09b2e2a861673b5ef7578580c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves as a phishing lure. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics suggest.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/modunajixotizusuzodoneto.pdf
    • http://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/wutuboditara.pdf
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d8bc80c72---51870991533.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079222053e3f---49014920876.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df5f2c4ed3655952431bf257aa99713f/96550660313.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1md8dtgmar3a10vgq75ph32qt/43159730850.pdf
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/42572665266.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f491386b4---86423352058.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000d51395549b3fe51eacb25c7556792/85277181665.pdf
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57e0047e157aa9612e03f574113013f2/82606584728.pdf
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780db8b3bb2---bupuze.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df31edcfccdf42bc9e6ab5e21ca7d6b/tulemigatedezoverajajubis.pdf
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c65a281330---58876458727.pdf
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/13078486600.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bedc6ee3af4e61ee5851c60bc1241b2/xifigizo.pdf
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815a3e8e426---mavelukopuguxe.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210621155827.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/18520308111.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081de523568d---zitudiluniduwob.pdf
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210619203706342.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e0c2ea210---27701472232.pdf
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a38a83ad0c8ee2e5137be2f46e9ba5/58392432871.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a99c26de482b7a36a8cbbe2e641334b/97534043699.pdf
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62306678577.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=miso+carrot+soup
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f087.bin
0b6afdf74cb07073d600174b0275a07bbd4a232bf49afb87cc332be1eba4f427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF087 17768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011eda.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDA 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136f1.bin
b9aabe8097da2b8334fcc8cb0a4c41c475c07a2c16a637cd30de9e6a773fc5d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F1 10180 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014dec.bin
0c133022d1e9883d2ff7035cf84f1fa0be9cfa0d671266bc5a940283bc0f9855
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DEC 16376 bytes