Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f5540c6a41fa5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: aefde03d1154d877d66c2092ebaa2b04 SHA-1: 60da3dd3bc03a3b9337c72bdd42ca894d003ee56 SHA-256: 56f5540c6a41fa5eaa2b0deae51eb4d0ad37c6ac97a6488feaac29aa1c386e65
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rbc-bezorgdiensten.nl/upload/54899035748.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad5d38698---xajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/70149547968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c18ea23854---gotuluwaxatala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/33286120265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8563e2b31ced498e57580296658256ca/dumemajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/libapefisemowagoderagiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/nuwawelugavolokokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb367p0pms5khsg3e8159mjabn/jefiwigewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/56959377400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/nukoxodevamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/67723912741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607075f3bbc0d---22128167855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ershrhbsuuf8ngd98pd8bcrti0/lawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udljj7mgc4imd2bvndnibd9egj/bagopodudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/zowinimukuvufazono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/sasawudonuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/23100957895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5d02bfa98---78939397337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4584d74bb32c6f0b15b5c02ca0ddf10/31409735018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/jowipadunako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e21bab4be675fd6c673ac1b95473dd9c/vezenosojemivabotuwimesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ardisam+8900+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_off0000d722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD722 18444 bytes
SHA-256: 0db5fb09b721eff935584c6cd3480d3a2789a8bfbafad0877c59dc8a3e06e77d
font_01_sfnt_off0001076e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076E 10636 bytes
SHA-256: e770e3e478f435a642f4ac64316264c1374e0dd2ff1707336c4830b797806856
font_02_sfnt_off00011faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1