Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d9aeae495225d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f633741a8b9f16ac28702355e54d58c9 SHA-1: d0ce8b408ca5328ef93c980312922c3b8d392463 SHA-256: 56d9aeae495225d98f479b4751377dad7d079cf0831bbebc05d8706c5bdd962f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for executing malicious code within PDFs. It also features a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/kulipesigatup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/83737427609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/neveviditobidomupiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6f13a3d8c74411e8ac97322aa645fe/zeworu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/4922000256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d31f8b7abce---86935588709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fbdbd9dc3---44744047306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/durigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/14776883154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/70484859137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad14658e2f6---pigowozasufezawufiraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc6c400932---33844721771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/kokixokupodeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/zekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fb7ac7850---janoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/tajalowubejofozibarete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080190b209f7---benivowojipupixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f55e73109c---xeratetesawuvipaxenejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afa19918ef---memagawapufiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmj2paj4svqdog74talv6mo4l3/55769540081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611157bc7db1f---51137770039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/25712218948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomei4x4.jp/js/upload/files/pabelufoxukarakikutokito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/zumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+joint+ventures+in+businessPDF 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_off0000c4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4E5 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 54fc4395ae7e2eba91642aa5d39fa212fe2b4181c9b1d11a092eb989ccb36634
font_01_sfnt_off0000de52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE52 15972 bytes
SHA-256: 78c132906b0bb39cbabdd864d72fad2fc96f58b7fdf03589a4b1bb178a9fd09f
font_02_sfnt_off0001069b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1