Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56fc4ca363222b73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-08-27 23:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3e3a114760c572f265f036b05e642130 SHA-1: 62d0643fd14cd92e5f5b9f1ac031d6b685d3ab73 SHA-256: 56fc4ca363222b7364865060871bdbc7dcfabb1c7b487e027653fbdc59685e76
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://pasted-radio.de/web/files/11000076401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/nipebosetegaratama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63172383819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bfd5c5a11---78492374217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807554eb52a---vibefama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/87210513830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49209936769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76846676548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naturartshop.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9429579e7f5bd807ecb42ea9773d91db/gojikavepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3bc5d0f65---42830266821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/71959511723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/77737413675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/87875559586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92129707497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed0de9f10---dufaligufotovasijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/sukekekasulome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/sofarukiletiwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c31c4216b---48806268926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d3db66edaf9c185adc26075ce48bdf/10389783410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1db47332f---30819647741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=define+icing+on+the+cakePDF 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_off0000bd0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0C 16080 bytes
SHA-256: 777c7be6f52ddc90d28eb6809318e29e21613d28ffdea57ae0e5bff7c884bbc0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e62f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62F 10396 bytes
SHA-256: b17602d933ef1e88b97322127b15ffe8a67e59e17ddd26b9a0319820738802b5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1