Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56650d89df8edd3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 36f6f8856f8f7e7e758ebdac39ebd302 SHA-1: 5a9f253315b94f8e138ee8c75c401b6e3f7c2217 SHA-256: 56650d89df8edd3f162620023c9c368cc277f384d78568c7962e0edd7ec11538
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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attack. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a deeper analysis of its specific intent beyond directing users to external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://namkhoasaigon.vn/web/images/files/puwenofosulonokapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/265091546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/tasepeniwuduwopewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de0e298ed8---zidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/17014035189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/89824494627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909170246545441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/nefuxatudevur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613793179cffb---wanekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxufafokaxufaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/40330604752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebobenomobarimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/64641583932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613441ab4695a---lexinirivowevipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/vexikobitedimukisujalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodoan.net/userfiles/file/59577463136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelepigaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/75647396105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjzhtchem.com/upload/files/29546083607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klpa.net/userData/board/file/suvavobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613060bc8fc38---37167318292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/wogexewamugekugexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btsoft.vn/uploads/files/26123671277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=football+career+games+androidPDF 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_off0000e81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81F 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 901a3bbbdd8a2e737b8a067ba36ce683f2fb06ac28db516a451621e2048f8cbe
font_01_sfnt_off00011431.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11431 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 0bcdc76c4ac16b0da74377aa6b7347f7852613164ce7971bea14160cac0bf39f
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1