Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f835f1c9ce4cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 10:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8cd9d88a634aca4d7e4f03fb2ce81bc8 SHA-1: a8b1f73b0bf5ba51dd7b7016a22bdf705576f69d SHA-256: 56f835f1c9ce4cc84587cc464424b93e302b7804733e1c188d8107a7eeb63677
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the overall structure suggests a lure to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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 http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce88974d501---valefofidiwidoves.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prof-cosmetics.com/upload/files/pifolavekilerulafujikubiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/18941492340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6fe8df0ac---zagorakafege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd280ebe4c6fb24a6304d280a0a020d6/90175788603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7fbf7951db937b248b02630a368d2d/zagufola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/ziwinozuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/90126585095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/tusubugosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/beraxuzeperoxoxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/95607645513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/xuxexavitivularipubonup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superplasticizer.cn/d/files/99194236021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/17183184361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607162dbb060a---deponapizavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dururasijosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907dd5ce7d2---72419573041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1edbc20bd5---zuvusuvotemiwevidufezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd8ae4913---kewejatawesijozilavidikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///kuzunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f21731beb0---zedogomusuzirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b67d8bfb22---xozexebokizuwalusaxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17334922431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=p+touch+1400+user+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off00011883.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x11883 17812 bytes
SHA-256: fed4bb7f4b8f67fde84409bb43d0b26c9dafb05475b3601572d145a938b0d962
font_00_sfnt_off0000eabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEABB 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 70011e620c6e3012a989d5a302ba80cac65ff9446c1b08f46c25f0b57be4750d
font_02_sfnt_off00013401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13401 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 36f9897d3aaba7c275ad46366f3c9522eb6b4b835ed2f288dab5350e6814d53e
font_03_sfnt_off00014cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1