Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56bed2a432c11e0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5eb6e76a066ea82a78c8bc4928aed6fc SHA-1: f9274d544a84a3adb7f512e4e035429cd266b714 SHA-256: 56bed2a432c11e0f2191910963a6aaa8afcd09f9cdd122800ec827c6f14355c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing attempt disguised as a software download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+x+game+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://aminotp.com/upload/files/82563637539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thailonghoang.vn/upload/files/94896360637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a28ac1d0ca---82844896695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/87919323717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/72325446070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1ai/files/file/devavaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/21588698763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-melodie-des-saveurs.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67559114578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-p-n.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/90218584933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41098770127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/69931918249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.be/Images/file/53932948949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/mojisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaymccarthy.com/immagini/file/loxamebewavogelova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe7de2c021---buxutowibazijapade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tl-maskinfabrik.dk/userfiles/file/wixuxigesetavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/nilakixogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f19b4501bf---83598642333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_61D3BB64447D35CF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/jijirukivuduwerexobimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/xesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f7e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E0 18740 bytes
SHA-256: 03160f6afeffda4e3bc37f76e1e6c76e568937971d661acf9e562c2973e12a7a
font_01_sfnt_off0001289f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1289F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B6 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 099084dec7e632c9e9d22579e890154ecdd71840903cac13d84949b66757f4c6