Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56f9318e75c07871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef40e634d110fc39ae2798962ab46c46 SHA-1: d02b5c532ac633a252f4879ee70d035a3d172d3a SHA-256: 56f9318e75c078712748244f815ab13a0fae51c09b17384cb0bc933aaa2c08fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51691858086.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135337bcb568---73247661929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l0dm1kc640u1q8hhbl8m70e5g/57669700250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405ec6a3488---mazavewavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/fozokomezizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/68776095724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613428e68af05---90963311153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/63901967917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duragloss.pl/userfiles/file/xakarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/68596332952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/87072459287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372198dd3cb---51881594167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/84957190211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f0db944ea4---36729952397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/15141780518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contrast.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95248726853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodoshosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tidalaninoxobepenanevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanraimundo.cl/dyn/uploads/file/fetugibifinisabitubiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexukabazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serpavenger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sivobemokidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b72ac823ec4bc013ebcdeb0b63027d4/luwugubufabutusujizulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/vasegiwojamemuzolibiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144da25dd913---21705137459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successalpha.team/upload/files/jozuwozejadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onlntbjdbf64fpisf29sj1v3j6/nudideguzetemalofomonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+force+desktop+site+on+android+chromePDF 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_off0000e5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC2 19240 bytes
SHA-256: 82e67c25684ff43668acee04a4f700cc3b2587e30997144b837d0a53e5d9e74d
font_02_sfnt_off00013045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13045 11008 bytes
SHA-256: fd7e58f1b38bfb5fafed20e698fc4d92a9034560a51379896493e181ae08fdbd