Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56aade443a899a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 773bd9ed71eb647c17d8b2300603cb1d SHA-1: a08c5e7e6174bfdf5908756cc5330080b3978c25 SHA-256: 56aade443a899a206462a13218ba44dfef92d663a76de1d45fd540882681babd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and a click-outward action, typical of screenshot lures. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be part of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 71 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/60449090181.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/jovisowoparezetalekuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3so7fe7urbsgj3c75q8jh2sb4/tewugojadekuriful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e80ac98f8ee79406f3862df5ffacac/jepasasufibasadawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119d7c18f7c7---degezerudosavevezudobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunsoftinfoway.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70371846272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/66904476346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/nemopotegujepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/47467464133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/63040303512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ff65c7bb675e8c8d0ad629ad3a4a7a/ralufodomupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/11749060143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/48085013741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14595174491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4b1b57759---11639799663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759c11c576d---48441604295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af888e145c7---19616883445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907700f3edc---66361991677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfaa3b971aac5fef461457fdf3c83539/mufexekisaxijodatapono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/nobafebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9i4fh42gckcmg825jjfdvqto5/10651920567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde7869e430db674a203e9ea87c1c1ce/buzejetakemokupomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+of+elements+with+atomic+mass+and+valency+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b785.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB785 14384 bytes
SHA-256: e30c2f5bf91f982fedb3108270f6d64bde93b241f2d1244d46f3b76fb6b78a9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000daa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA5 11292 bytes
SHA-256: d38b12d05d180582998ea45f45c5cf8829314d45b8d7ff4032d47a5b73e4c64d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1