Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56ab26f08f360898…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5a7528b4f63223fbbcb78bc6df38f1db SHA-1: ba93584bdcaa30728c755e86191baedd4dc3f2b3 SHA-256: 56ab26f08f36089875c690c53d4287a9cb4a36af8e9ffda770e7051299d66303
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and heuristic firings suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://razzledazzleevents.in/userfiles/file/bubekisajisobosop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337ebf2c70e---sodefajexoluwapiwolinazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109040546154762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://democv.associasuite.com/imagenes/contenidos/files/13733076513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzawimisisase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phr4u.com/files/26382612154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/ximapejozasivoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/fisufozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/nesigowiguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulabenveniste.com/UserFiles/file/zuvovokexofixuwafixipuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac5d6b84bcd4d3f20296bfd9e18c3fa/50009140597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72167005340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3795669093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/webawovitapune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392c03daa50---13022265331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butyfarm.mm520.net/userfiles/files/51765006507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m05l45dm7mogj15cielk9gdn48/85142332422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florissantdesign.nl/docs/Image/file/nuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a16e1e38b8---fexegobelidajirivizapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/jotolobisojoniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a649d48f4---99903830110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210905160516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/16611190507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85563244655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=secure+self+storagePDF 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_off0000c590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC590 10492 bytes
SHA-256: a6019f807166460dd17a10cd2ff6d88aa946a88b9a29a1f179d941cf7a18b4f9
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD97 15608 bytes
SHA-256: d2f8fbd99c58664b487b91516aa4a07aa8d571f8041b729713f31f93e0fd7cf3
font_02_sfnt_off00010525.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10525 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1