Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56ea8da2a6afd1cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 422593ea3ec6794b8ff0d164a115fe7d SHA-1: a8236fcdbf39bf89bb94e6b804632307844d155a SHA-256: 56ea8da2a6afd1cb9953b7c79a5755f34ed4f566c60515a179a59299bf9dcf6a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a phishing or tech-support scam context, aiming to trick users into interacting with the provided links or potentially calling a number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/nepesaguxatedalufanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ipkameros.lt/userfiles/file/tosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/35435814370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreuma.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82552522100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88174cc4cdfc26447d800584d0812a1f/65020439040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimezujaxikaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/1385937958614030957699e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbev0bhje.xn--p1ai/images/news/file/sutigowade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wemutedibowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/42381202834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40053409606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gu-bo.cn/uploads/files/21122547127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161354efa5a521---61285149584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366201a8966---dewezasibadugezokavubiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--365-pn7mwb654m2qn.com/ckupload/files/vuwajojixasoladivafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glampingcaravan.com/userfiles/file/20210909205037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131739f1569c---32854221866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungder.com/upload/65353757220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/wibarigisovazifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/xolowok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/pededitogatemupomenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e51cd821a51320d0dbc33b98b58ab2/muvubosakurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d2ba8a79f---26951684177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=c%23+socket+programming+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC3B 18404 bytes
SHA-256: a3be59e3490ceb39b7378e9dc465918e98757c6c7e26acb05d9db763f7568722
font_01_sfnt_off00010bef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEF 9104 bytes
SHA-256: fe4a9ad32d6d12da45ce8861a1e6e511df5579fd33367a5c4d1c9e774d301804
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1