Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d42c7e76c284dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-06-18 17:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dd0c8f5a318c928f52462aa842e6ae30 SHA-1: ad9c2a8a5eff9fca6ca315cd93af09d600cf295d SHA-256: 56d42c7e76c284dd1f0a79a89123df4fa0993becd8b382a709f2b65e6b74d152
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/nufewugijavasezekek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e870eafcbc---kunofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/25295072975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19n2ornn16t1ru23rps0da2j41/58870034850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/xifurewopugejafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiu44eel0s51h8t1udefdu64sq/86733925293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d14a7934e8---gavudoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criollo-cocoa.com/userfiles/file/diruwuxapafetigifowovomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/54438315208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/zikexaxukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7659935c41---40549380371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o855dorqf0prblb71bh34fe2m5/lajetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/fodijiwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553b8bf21d57c25d7b434e8c8939b8f7/43934457766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://islandsvefir.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u204m21p7pt5s8qpe03lm1j86h/lukikufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607518654b201---xenuzelonitipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herningbadintra.dk/app/webroot/upload/files/32607139950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/53629069100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=cisco+converged+accessPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15995 4868 bytes
SHA-256: a19e13c6988ee727c3b60b6d0c66dd28b69c7aaa5b36be3317db3e00ff2636b6
font_01_sfnt_off00016a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A1D 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 0b29982e5243c138346f0ffcc80f88c9f601ab248c62149247f60dfb063e400e
font_02_sfnt_off00019101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19101 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34