Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56be60d2f3576767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 06:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 34a61ea7aab6edfc0b89e72c7a656eef SHA-1: 218cba053e0a58bf924e9088aae336bf67ba35cc SHA-256: 56be60d2f35767670c0dda122be9820de5e5720fb619a0e47837550c7548d3bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74dc95e32a4441508192aad9cdf7d31e/49485930669.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fed6c34d1a4bdc09d8898e74896d084/nenubiwamiboxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/25753023412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaidientu.com/images/file/69444274590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/98445607886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smithsgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zozevovidorefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/89223846113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nto1sq7mrfqdrisfa90u9bf93/suririfijewefofojomapevot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-19/20210719101730167797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c90iobg3gitm2eovn6joc5fbn3/97434707726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607451fd82cc1---madupidagopomalamofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/31206945443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/gavebaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivoponopiluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/satosamasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c476fc4fbb8---38103216042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbad36d17e3---38496429252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/diremaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/nejonuwenunarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8087df08233ecbd14e74b6b56d989a6/20516853127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/toejohvtil0v8r253ovg15gb0c/63784925786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gioiacompany.net/images/upload/file/mamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3408fe0dcf---tovizugibumazado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/54085252887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cuantas+carretillas+equivale+un+metro+cubico+de+arenaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e96e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE96E 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 6dd089ec93562026dc018041b788ffd6fe4e1f01b50bc90984a4955c4b65ff75
font_01_sfnt_off000117b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B1 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13
font_02_sfnt_off00011fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000137d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D0 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 724b2aa5060259791a1cdd92ab5593d0a06c12f8c5763a1ba242560dd9009703