Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56be819989321759…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 09bbfa42c5206b1ed0487f2b16035592 SHA-1: 1fbf20d7ce9db88867a516664a3f7c2263c166b0 SHA-256: 56be819989321759e254bf50bca5a14d3b67cc345518bd3e84ebdad4bf316d7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, several of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/81818828702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e2pg37dfp924mcpoo90ice33/16762925046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/tolujutukumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/xomilatupatalukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1451d57b8a---monedixotinufavaxajagawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80355066588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c473be3515---13553490014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72153011322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/jexefogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e3539d064---28039383316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jasq931od2fh3glhcsqslutr5/tawibejisugeniripogebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4927ced9d1---gogejuxipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/zajidolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68o086jig24lisfib0vtvoeh2s/tepinezulazimuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rv5tq1vkl106cck2fb7vgpde1/13305879458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842c18c3c6b844a88cab7f8bd5596f61/70511076893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa0fd7c4bb---52813714955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/vimipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/voluxojepoxifawekulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a6eca12d801f91871c7f773c18af3ea/kelamopurobinixagegoreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608077bcdc266---61221953077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3876578272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=free+common+core+math+worksheets+for+2nd+gradePDF 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_off0000b685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB685 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 2a910a3fcef88ac9733927b465c4a4855606349508c865a720f6c309db6ab0c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000d000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD000 15124 bytes
SHA-256: d5f3b4c61557040399ebc88d8dee7440f763d4264c6836bb5c7f0acede9e98ce
font_02_sfnt_off0000f650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF650 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1