Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56aa129a310fae82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-07 10:07:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 5006cc2c2b3adc8f731cd5531cf0807b SHA-1: c3d29701ddf1ee5edf99df353e99533171e54fa0 SHA-256: 56aa129a310fae82aa30860a1240ecde96cd7b74a2c2477fa9c93720225b9679
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on compromised websites, likely to facilitate the download of a secondary payload. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a phishing or social engineering campaign aimed at tricking users into downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/jagopigezizudanoma.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c75d12183---3577165975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b570e162ef0---tekuwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57629a2453---30748470037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajakeempat.com/contents//files/wovidujudeterove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langumeistras.lt/i/File/rabijabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69254924818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/fenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894516205d3---69528091727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/72591024523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/xivuxutunupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449de54a4a3ede2eeb9f09d68120f92b/gokazexexuvibejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b8226248e---40756145389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/68690957734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe74eb1fb7---fopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609981dd8e7c3---39642811268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bc53abd35---87935519546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kj11uknragicb87cidqs2kkr8/90476888773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/45211486288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35148d8b8fdf0099ac249beb927f8bd/jojarigukitofalevunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdaedc97f70---ditafelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1c334feb9---daxumojifafevapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=download+slither+io+mod+apk+android+1PDF 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_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 775fa0970e0aca406b23d043a2f906ce26f4db4fd1e5befc7685ab20f2f692d0
font_01_sfnt_off0001159c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159C 10888 bytes
SHA-256: ad426a0b297a74d52869c18a38770c15572c3fb422df47fe52075638c9354660
font_02_sfnt_off00012eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1