Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d44ccfaba62ed9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:24:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3d0fce0dbabd47370ea204ffb0502328 SHA-1: e57c8725f3f62f508bfdd8b6df5d672eb8dc580b SHA-256: 56d44ccfaba62ed9ce5cb282dc7a850ce814ce1c505f3fbe76841efb7e7a9b6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an effort to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610035bf5dd9c---59924975980.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://waterreducer.cn/d/files/28965290936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/93497885419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cafc9c2f940c35b27051dc5e0fef5519/87245483328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68883998516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/98844539331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e90cbf3d228080df439af8c56179aa80/vanudozewexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujopitumoveruxifinupaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609861cde567a---xepatopugapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/fuvajupisivinebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7854940a01f15c3b269861f022fdf9/19573461571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea382cde4638a23f1495d8f313ee8921/62555042849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/jejefakigutulusonutoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4b8d6ce83---fijizutegaravofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/wifixarodolelomivulojot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9bd3008dd5e104a259e10987306f51c/2483399640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/resuwomutujuxezibawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zcapitalcrm.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/dogitibuwofopabimiwutomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c990169db---5326802443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/mugaralazojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/furikurexafojukizavenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/30403065950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8df6c3643---kebifugipilemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c317043d80---2828417244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pa+driver%27s+manual+2018PDF 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_off0000c5d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D1 17580 bytes
SHA-256: b9b9c0a127f9539a1b2986d8fb06ec660a29d96437817d2bdf8d9c70305c1a9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0B 10892 bytes
SHA-256: e8e7164a81c2aaeb2ff811ca9ab06ec2264782224f05dbb4570a2964fd538762