Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56c57fc9bde02c71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.8 KB Created: 2021-08-05 21:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3c7dd6ffafe4d13f5be656e95ff6b240 SHA-1: 3c48382107182949dc140478e4b2dace5935d5a4 SHA-256: 56c57fc9bde02c71bc363b582812929335c8b23f5268ab4cfe72ee12b53e4d1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=complete+book+of+maths+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dilokebetamubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmv5b0hfe9l97dem3vl8rj9ih0/jisasedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077174521d6f---xojewobasenewilivosafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17102853903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/19504456463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2ue2bq37b0mv00ur51imulcgq/bojobedimadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/36162138056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotechcorp.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/73232413559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/loredulebevetenupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/61983651633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/74971900187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/33047665136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/7599083194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e1b29d477---sovolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57aa7ee2a88a8d9199fdc23000c7059c/96825041372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/wusutumeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c230748c71b1c40c3bcb0e616e0e872/lagijilulijafobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/kulajuzipane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/jojubos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/tasozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37653942069.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_off00013bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB5 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 220784f27900fe95a08bf1ff1108d5f9a2aa0129e5b2915c1f0adb02acd9837a
font_01_sfnt_off00015435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15435 16152 bytes
SHA-256: fc78795f30bdbdf54b8e964cead830aeeb2f62f4f91cf63f3b5da1da1ecead9a
font_02_sfnt_off00017e08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1