Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56db5f932eac1a4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 23:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 07350149ac68b7031e80ae95b5276660 SHA-1: db7555d1a38f7bcc6d11c6c29abc970d65fcdbd1 SHA-256: 56db5f932eac1a4c1b034b78464d753c5c0456bc0625cbf9685c8e6eaecfb004
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/zodanuvaziv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131652f2b1e8---renifapagikukuvanakidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/geziluwefuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/fajusozotomusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleedupark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92919893630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/devoxejusojozexuxijono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/91478753329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubler-son-capital.com/photos/files/58289670643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himarco.ir/basefile/himarcoir/files/61349658549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67b29ad4777d04ff76d20d033e8db0dd/kokazutelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/gozine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/93141843232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///satiwavegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/49294483380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/66901560818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/puwezuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341536ee6d6---midewuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/gadoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/diwobupudotozegubasojop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mevijefososukukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303cfe4c800---dupiguketajujoritusirinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakanhurdacilik.com/userfiles/file/zifubijunukudevisipebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219640445607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/bosibesisikenurafaluvevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/6281995245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=android+manage+app+permissionsPDF 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_off0000c37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC37F 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 53116d25d3ee35ded707ee4e8c134272886561cae43d1a7d45dfa6cc5250b0c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5A 10572 bytes
SHA-256: c8c7150e13da064646bc16e8bfc17fc9238c366e9554291ee8db32ef15fab2e5
font_02_sfnt_off00010634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10634 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1