Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e5822149904fc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-10-08 12:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 63f6fcd520e3a0b326105b9b3d76669f SHA-1: 1a0b99c41f7d0a135c8911a2a4e527b707555df9 SHA-256: 56e5822149904fc03db9376e2dfcefa4ae5a7db4d9f74b60162c8129acb1dbbc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic firings related to PDF link farms and compromised CMS uploads strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=family+household+chores PDF link annotation
    • http://travelcenterpuntos.com/campannas/file/36017874860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef66973074---pikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/pexunobikasiroxapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/dixuxinijabuwigudeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e5tbr2.alruaa.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/1034940651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/6786703089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/50695727209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/jurizinirigakifere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/96936273554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/dotosodomonujari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/351e9263f8c7381d9dcc27634048e0b6/37929225504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/85882438516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/mesegokorixisaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210913080411782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/sekekupowukoxupadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091717045666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615be2f7cb824---woguxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/javowukugasexenedewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/kaxirepatesomemosajusiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speednewslive24.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/48542467426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb0c211b349900d26cb535c95d2ae32/doroteruzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631849812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs/files/79552147441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/moluzifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/potamubamotigede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratosatu.com/contents/files/90376982356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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://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_off0000d4bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECCD 17472 bytes
SHA-256: b45d0f96a88454cd8d1731a9dfcd0aa2aab2804dc9fe81d2e57bb2cac859a5a7
font_02_sfnt_off00011a63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A63 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d25a5683054ae5cddb4ccb3a692c9bbe1ba4993f55b8bb74b282492d68e23449