Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e0711a4cfea830…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:20:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 97926f8662591136dbecdcecd1248274 SHA-1: f405ac809c0e9b0861046de430799b4433fb1b19 SHA-256: 56e0711a4cfea8300abf3023f9e9c8ce3cf215eac330805f043d59971e701587
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings and URL structure are sufficient to infer its malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781510538a8---dofuxelepiwe.pdf
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/47140058478.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5941db3f5577bcf9ff6ddbbb6eb858/26025052383.pdf
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/33468753064.pdf
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855da200ada---dugotuzawosepixisovut.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/wuzumesizokojasirojezozor.pdf
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/94452868519.pdf
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1af9e94b62---rijaxitusowub.pdf
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/bobanaxipa.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26e69c5c94---logixavunopotigizizo.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abde90ddb9b---dexewanogurorokafiman.pdf
    • http://uhy-th.com/image/upload/files/89861796398.pdf
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/62690507883.pdf
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9616mb2ivjcp17oofo0v3qriv1/pazapamepibiki.pdf
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d89b3df36952145b92df3e7d4104bb0/24514371927.pdf
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gozuvari.pdf
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/35774495514.pdf
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/93925620600.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8s1pqloth9nj2v7ng6e5fg6d1/wajotot.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/25798958711.pdf
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/dudasak.pdf
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ceb06b8bb111dbbc39a7037fc7a1e48/kotuzaroriteba.pdf
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/95624721134.pdf
    • http://xoblates.com/clients/e/e0/e08cfb93fb97b00c28394d0532709dc9/File/konodivefupomofumulumote.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmlo0rnf7a6eofh4u2hd608hl6/gudorefa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=weight+of+a+3x2+concrete+slab
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010094.bin
24add1271faa8f1c0296aba98058a8fc23085a5099d6af3ead9bc368333eb9eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10094 18092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013081.bin
e94abb051ee8d483030c3b5e4d3bcaaf2a477db9866190e9bba4074ddd180825
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13081 11144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014a9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A9F 16792 bytes