Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56dc9b21400621ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:41:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 71e0784ab51bf9a76e30591daab498e0 SHA-1: eddf108e5d1b03fef6a22015bc472c6da2770398 SHA-256: 56dc9b21400621ea6c7442886618b0bd1d4438a54c3b24093c9d3f3eb51d6dc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious or phishing sites, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9526f3271b456b23caf18fe2113fdf7/30264712154.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091baf77f5a0---764789323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/38304212006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/80963292655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b50ffdb6cb---sevunifajadelajipilaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b12aa7f1d8b19532e13a3eada125a8/pinilara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f5fbeedd6---50387463669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/58397836839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddeed6477d---62048343787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/nuvafoluvuxegevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezstreetautosales.com/clients/876244/File/lonolagijitegenoforesozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spmvuuievt57f6hqomjaovkmu1/15438244332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfec46b676---bowimumevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ad208185b---fafivejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aed7gt7h0k03ncjn4qp8v15v13/43027701606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797e4f24cf1---23120042299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c379t2s02mk9cqfut5nde4vg6g/85767092813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/porikekomutuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/83145803598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statsale.com/data/upload/ck/files/4275446568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4a1d4915d---64020285097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80623eb681fdd2f3b978aa92a2122f9e/56335467855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210614205311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=stream+processing+with+apache+flink+o%27reilly+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BD 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 37db3424a7fcd003961a089b3ad4371288bf2d64bb10e2fd4ecf0b298977bd27
font_01_sfnt_off000116e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E7 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 4c89750607e27310b93c0fc44fbd51c0709c6dd8f8083ee43e18566bf8f9d948
font_02_sfnt_off000131b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000149c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149C7 17268 bytes
SHA-256: f2af6048ac2c2d8aad330275d87bc8b7d85c675c9f05ea0bb0d5b62d2aff2733