Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56360f377579c628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-30 13:15:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1d8f8432c56e62c4629a6f178ba0d798 SHA-1: 42d609de389f38ae37859db5d68f1aaee5c3397e SHA-256: 56360f377579c62898c6978a73408e69f12de34745c58061ca58e5b2e0b70706
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89177654583.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/62091288607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4qo8ss5mnc7d21rtn7tcie94k/15566084319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210619085824_5jidcd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmpva.nl/fckassets/file/91106296130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5ea3c7d16---44243755496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/86303942148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancient-theater.gr/media/file/dulafomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e23e1dbc3f0bfb00011b779dc745ce2/fodiponozupoxuzerejijuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyearland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojixazekazukokezuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/muretisetadofuluxejidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/98996268367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///39945362797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a047850c5fb1ec66c2e729d14b799814/97440471902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e8343557da5a7d9b675815449b568d/buzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e44528dda23---17210340959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/ropijenenefoxikomabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad854a1504c---76935953857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4dc39e2c0e---wapexewobimugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denledmpe.com/upload/files/11090275129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84f4f00f165a8f461fb36ead310594bc/60792834952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/31992746332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/wetumififomukogej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/torafumuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=bedsitters+for+rent+along+thika+roadPDF 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_off0000f2cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2CC 18628 bytes
SHA-256: e4380da46c66f48923a8d2a0c253a893d510d7e88c95d49e061c1db77bbd78a5
font_01_sfnt_off000123fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123FD 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 6e71ad6ae3b268db526d0b1778e6ec65509e634d5f307e118e8ae86ef24e4120
font_02_sfnt_off00013c8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1