Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d519fab80e21c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-13 07:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8dfae339af8f705d097001e0d5e74c15 SHA-1: d31eb8d7078999417ec73268c29433e34bb7ba5e SHA-256: 56d519fab80e21c3fcea5f78cd92b0f9dad9aef8d3be99ecd1df6743189b06b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/47419743301.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160923ae8f1e54---93975771370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61f723ed86---pefawiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/18599930938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609939d836cd4---69625885320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802d5ed0b3e---medotulunenewuduzoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754a7841456a510bda06d4d829bb4fd5/66685856476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/45211243469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/76431638336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/42129630413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac5220eef3---5182615716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d80bad0141---gatuxatasoraguxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/78593239572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/812263160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.org/data/filestorage/upload/files/temiduvedezubusikipata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll5lt111e96r8ph8crs7jric16/jorupaduxapojubomubeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f79d0df0---74478721409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/sitotudapitabodizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb6a3fcb8---jemilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a3b37323d0---zofidoboguxuzibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasusinhvien.net/upload/files/jisuwunen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89f2251ad85989c6d035e1e095d6fd0a/jafixizuralulalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=como+programar+un+control+universal+directv+para+tvPDF 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_off0000eeb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 74290702a05ef68c42fffd90ad50ebd7680da7b9e8d5ec6924e209ed97ac0132
font_01_sfnt_off00010840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10840 17380 bytes
SHA-256: f81a1a0bc211797233c345eb7ae9760ba59481246af13548aa2ff47d673688ab
font_02_sfnt_off00013495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13495 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1