Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d77909580ef8c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:58:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f7a1dd0bec2fee3f8ed05bd95ec9b4cd SHA-1: 4afb251651fcd62e108bd47324520e1662b606c6 SHA-256: 56d77909580ef8c0492b20760c68c8e932aecb32657f4e39e241e8d0cdf7bbd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but likely serving as a lure to these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://shengnabei.com/uploadfile/file///2021081000593485.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6ce0354008---kawiwavasibubasudumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/wozijosukilekuvomakapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9hhov5djfl180sprrenma1mtu/molorepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/gelukarowijowepivajofulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf77e78cb9---81028629994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d613306e58---43590492480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ribepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/boojocj19lrkkhidn957hiolmc/mifemumovetugamotegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c2ad6eb4bc444e66b1034863f2d418/nakuwixiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juentai.com/userfiles/files/11310157735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98cbe0c7d8---votufigubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ea7db1b9c---79201823181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/16788824901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/fibekamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/lobufovuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdf62ef624a7ee9265f6fb237365a685/42335337595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/lesili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/36972519546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/virizenebulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210831135332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovekifarasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/naratutisajaweduwobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-19/20210719122538972686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nonfiction+reading+passages+for+middle+school+pdfPDF 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_off000103ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AE 11044 bytes
SHA-256: b2f9658f2685071f311918a94b2b8f8e5c098dcc598bb08dd7f044c7b813d84c
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF3 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 33a8c5e5529ea82cf05e64737c56a7d4fdae95df5ba5707ce94ab7b5454de36e
font_02_sfnt_off00014979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14979 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1