Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56863606bb55cea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6bd9470260e2900f46bcc3e6457cca25 SHA-1: d3f58c5381c094183c134e2f204bc1177fc67e53 SHA-256: 56863606bb55cea89ba778d7ea51773987b05726890ada1206f1a131b51ab820
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

Heuristics 5

  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=she+will+be+loved+tab+acoustic PDF link annotation
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc71ef367e---watototaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb1ded12d2---14894390140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/998ce9aa00adebfbbf91d486c0fbb42b/mumujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607482a25b368---vaxodubawetiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f08f3617e6680e2c88a6b6f0ae7a66c/67976899669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926d2ad8310---83217273551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5b719ec52f---xapanugoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/kirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cde9366a99c---tetavowanisugupevexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98f877e2f2c00b63db01801bb469cf33/fewaroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e5fd262e6---rofarinagul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a946f23fa1---wapusuzegozazonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee3daff3862a57cdd2a6e5983e7988fb/8565461508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/20049427371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/fudasupuzokuranarulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasilobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/lipubudetawixinixufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a30ff1414---87061152301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac974c4bf89---lafobepokozufowalokewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981c561f120---90409601483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/noxokibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/jepurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/83926415598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE169 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC0 19808 bytes
SHA-256: 36627033e330f06524899c427727d29d610f926d6a79f94425c610f3acb3aa26
font_03_sfnt_off000140de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DE 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 76795582a7a9b5463d759fc2061c8ce03188a25a9705df9638be6da1e16eea32