Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e3f3f21a07733f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 14:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 522e4bccfd011bb9a69397dc99d2eea5 SHA-1: e044cd299b33ab9859b3f1213bcad6a1ecaffad5 SHA-256: 56e3f3f21a07733fe34b75c0ea6226d3dd6a29c961f3e14fc78fafa848e1f27b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, and also acts as a lure for browser extension installation or fake invoices. The embedded URLs likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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 https://mollis.rs//files/gokam.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac43799c66201867aef050cc84bb4544/ragomimadanesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f555a22519---zixafurozunavunimuxakiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41172648930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f52009d94e---96409167733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tuvuluniwomedomumutabedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c3afce4337a802108a3dc80e1e0fba9/lunefuzufipapabulubita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6068657232660819ca87753f25b856e0/vanopipono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/74279903000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkl2d83eocvmrrachmhrmhf744/88853679389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/murodugesajamuroduvozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783dc55ab4f---34312529056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ee77ce80cba818e5f0d305bbf35a2a/mukolewikepudalemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfh55kncnt6cvu369mth5c2ue1/zasulugidakugodowaralokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecprint.com/images/file/39534159456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31954128872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/dazewujakegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f29a30cb08d704cb27768b33727ef7/22643121740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/kilomevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b27c971264---xupilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/denemopekime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/menide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/satanekozamode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=ocean+breeze+8+000+btu+air+conditioner+manualPDF 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_off0000fd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD78 17344 bytes
SHA-256: 56e68750d7a42707c5e83883551a241b38fc90ab4531d26d0a7f369742ee7610
font_01_sfnt_off00012ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD8 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 2617e98325d48798a179dd4a31eadc75cfd93ba4f4cccf8d1ef157b80ca82fc7
font_02_sfnt_off00014473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14473 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1