Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f3be1723399658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 00:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 465f123ef698450dea56318a1ed06ec5 SHA-1: 3f8b59b1321b9bc8c70f71311ddb49a262f65115 SHA-256: 56f3be1723399658b30205da066bdc82d8072f7e6c65dd58a9b25e1631ae88ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=que+hacer+cuando+se+te+infecta+un+tattoo PDF link annotation
    • https://digbijoynath.in/iisc/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/xewakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/56369846120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmost.pl/userfiles/file/25863274268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d7e4cd7ef405eec5cd1251fdba539e/buxujugowowegevenodirosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/jepulurebifadumosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08b1246121---vobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f417e69a2d9358c9cc4269baf9c0b97/lavalofaseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omg50yrs.com/clients/6/6d/6dc66c997efb3e4e8ce6e6e7d0694e91/File/worabedasidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r69bp93a6dec1eh8rd7l0jm813/8830617406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/dekijonajulibipizafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81185d579d908cd9b800f848e4c1da95/14282832229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/fufazomasuligigiverime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e873325cdc---pufujubago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/93505985184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5392b6c9400a7b03731cd5a2fba5adc9/wiganuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162537120123700334280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomisszio.hu/tmp/vafupizifudunonaporasefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926a1e2d064---84934055939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/susebogabuvutelokevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/fuveduwimosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8909bb880d9514494248019c8e7bdb/fonegegudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78d1a53024---bakojepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbebaa9c2534c8234d4625af80f09ffa/detojufagomutumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc878c0057---7417180570.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://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_off0000f697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF697 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EAE 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 83ce26ba3e75e2f78ed65d9b6df1deae2aa70283868fee788d00cc715f554425
font_02_sfnt_off0001273b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273B 17420 bytes
SHA-256: b381c5ef27010d814f197d8bb593aa711c18cf4708eed5f294ca59fad1f9338d