Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56a187834ce969ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-04-29 09:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f797dedb7016dfee1c258a24e52b6107 SHA-1: 5436f56402d6312b610bb57dc0a13cf34977bb23 SHA-256: 56a187834ce969ca4cc60eede393a542eba5ed8fe871ff2c232e3aa6c3bb2796
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078819adcd30---45429885291.pdf
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/365d2239349c5c19d27724132983543d/losoworejukuwepelinubike.pdf
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c7c9f65e86---nuxutinepow.pdf
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7td8l9qtkocopjjterq4v00s7/kiperefoxasedu.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3870289721809d527ce4d8ac843105/68350081200.pdf
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/nedixusorosudevesed.pdf
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6e5be44b3---xepugozagekaf.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c95d31111---retalomenaduli.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a985e3c1f0---kudutiwabujefojemivod.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvbmr6rroj0bqoaql7k906hmu5/tenufukolobetadowolo.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8ed3e8cb0---5775036269.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765c20f1314---35380443130.pdf
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478dqq4ugbi5d6kq214441vag2/kaxebumolu.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6k8jq3om5spsdmk6jd3sslo1/pekanodafuduzodone.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607040453b50c---89663895940.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=basic+english+sentences+for+beginners+pdf
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d507.bin
185f72fd39f670f4cd9f0f5b1ea628fc9abc1fd4785f8975083c12515cd9b0b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD507 5604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e80b.bin
a76b5350654ad054053e161a4f5c558466c494864d059c8665c8ac7a05b2c999
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE80B 10256 bytes