Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56da64ea9daf1d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-26 07:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fdef5b00f34e9223fcfd0d90792a3eea SHA-1: f7d3699f97ff16746acb9162b013836fc23be422 SHA-256: 56da64ea9daf1d76ab1b24016237491ab5afa874256529c5b3e6078372c44fcc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of an embedded URL with 'javascript' in the query parameter, despite being labeled benign, indicates potential for script execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601cefeb7ec11600d221a916ef17307f/32687611730.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/54085124221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca526b6e1e---witofelifovumoripefitezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f91bdb51f---60721562133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/gomofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thailonghoang.vn/upload/files/gugasaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0633337ad818d7c9b229d3ad71d24d24/34255434262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1bc0bca0e---sozazulevifasufonijugewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd27265cdcc---1728571746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1cmg0jiii5bei53cvr3esbpu0/vekikukepijolemibatupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/nibujulonomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3b04703ceabfdd033456851d51857c/81865802692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/78034879271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db4bf14d33---769383030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7590d2339d56b21ead103ba8f348a5/jovosokuwimoxelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/tobubuxodede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uco-kampen.com/media/files/33857363564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rg6omo2s8etb6rmqhgfmvvume5/42604390352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weiddy.com/uploads//files/202108131323269044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf08056b10---67401067699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091432f96bb8---32570010866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1b456c907666980a1c419cf3cda095/39537907916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izhar-energy.com/userfiles/file/luwonipomifaviwuvavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=add+and+remove+list+items+javascriptPDF 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_off0000dde1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE1 10852 bytes
SHA-256: cd9f54c82ece02c57d66203e5ef685c8bce149e2240bf5de0ef394a5e0bbf4ca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E8 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 637beb815b7150d296a209d337b8b4424f558c2da2e272042b514d79659b2fef
font_02_sfnt_off000126d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1