Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56be23fa005b2ea2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 22:23:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 257b60ad9665855b55bd377c024d741a SHA-1: eca90bd1607f8a5706d642d86cea0520a9ca99bf SHA-256: 56be23fa005b2ea21436c5860981fc6874c7741d1ef187377de32e766e0a5525
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was identified as malicious by an ML classifier. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 5

  • 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://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a480cf5e---javexox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4073b2166---33740481263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfa7abf93ab04339f40da7255e864157/19679008873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb8be52b7c---demuxaxowosamamuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detikakdeti.ru/img/file/ladolevoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/of49cu1aj8psqerharqt24377p/xidodiresowarilogituxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9076203af2---dakenajefinadupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c37042d90c9a4419a2a638f2194cac0/95460149375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fab0e861---vasidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac607971741---11908918834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/5267169700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/29773497813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30bbdttvpob3honu2428pugup9/65748799017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9be2d51d53134e2b331b1c3b95a8a81/jazolerobisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ef57dc2152d6a88235b2997b21b0486/89037437093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/29855459321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a309ec343---96057396425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/405e409a9f9fd9fe29e8ff61019a3f9a/riniseriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et57mhp0tk60in71vsh4lqb9j3/25464359824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66a19ed41c---80648449640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/rezafupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/97349550060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fv62avgfeh53cmd5ab5d4rrlcp/1429350181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ethical+issues+in+international+relationsPDF 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_off0000fecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECC 17484 bytes
SHA-256: ab79bf1073b777ae4a038ba3149e1ddabf53353cbf1fcc6ea924ddbbaa618398
font_01_sfnt_off00012c9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C9A 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 4db1383d9b642e3738404c6e830126f640d827f96351346a7904f29a33a34056
font_02_sfnt_off0001441f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1441F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1