Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56a22ef3474ef1e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 05:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dca3ea16f439e0d14d169c8dfdd099f6 SHA-1: f1a8f472a4e09a214236649169e9dc6673918ab0 SHA-256: 56a22ef3474ef1e3afa9b37721abbaadbd0e9b9e8f3efdbef887b4b4401c84a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

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://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e3baafcba---tigeladedubisepotolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7be16dd8a---61043982628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/zubufuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/69826847844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074015c901e0---5664862844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/zalovosuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/257738067025ffc16c043e3139aab61d/92281296772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/rosisuvabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/98181654232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b160f3bcb04---pujizipafarimotiseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsc9alecrcu1anf0db5s559dp0/19207330360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a6c7e5920fce926bb96104d0b3a5e0/zamitakilokuvuwuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/vomipalusisifivilow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/pogusajasazimovuzogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/73952303527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b9c4cf42e---jukesotatixinedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/banafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/mofuluzatadutopaxiraruson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/visoderikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/fukemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de90b493dc2---webenidilijopozulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/7455094026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae6412c30b077aa8dcb81502a547c47b/4065995339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74204101125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+different+slime+activatorsPDF 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_off0000f27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27B 16804 bytes
SHA-256: b12a5fd765f231b81b33a869c633c82b78ce8b72548a3ff6f7683d7f116187dd
font_01_sfnt_off00011e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13626 10800 bytes
SHA-256: eaa2e65a62b61f49530c345994f0ad485cf9224c7dcbe0f1477ac44a7f39791e