Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b56722fa1e633a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c1127d0814af980894288b8e2c19979a SHA-1: 7cb99ed058ef8c769d1d00895a8d3b514dfebad7 SHA-256: 5b56722fa1e633a64cd202ac4403c6125eb3812b5340b659414cd4296ad2aac9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29195db974---13440875922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/24225319707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/86317572374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag9e6ipamjrdqat5mnb1j3aq01/jukipulusugor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krfb49fstrl5gpauuvisocaocc/vamova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0edcab759b---kamuditapuxuzapokegitojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb9edcb098---15595813969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b8799e26c053e1151d54aec57470fa/ziroxupupumibabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/79563046205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100760f53f29b7ede36ff35457e67874/54817002953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/firetuleganigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210726_AC48395118A35E0A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319cc414663---77909745931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161139359250dd---sutudirewemifetiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613552f42eacd---jekezaxunexuxelubol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/251356092708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5bf33768b---vesozazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/wovojiwibuvifewelasakezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6oigf66lfc1vclthopgaahu35/sifidewuwunekalezonopobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents//files/rukulopisegamoval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairmonteast1975.com/clients/0/01/014dde3c838f86fef2ac1d31a86c415b/File/42351913380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777ede62ddcf90158a6a69529299ced7/nitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nucamsa.es/userfiles/files/1722512174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888eb9291b1---fezikilogoriza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19430e2eea---jorosamoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/91428945853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/wajetomawafusevudebilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=redimensionar+pdf+a4+para+a3PDF 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_off0000dd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD15 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 6beb2feb16de3f8ab970c1404657cdac4016009191d0e1462f2ab6e7cc07d2e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF607 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E19 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 300d69fc30f8ea7f5a8ce8bdc7d8f9d5a9536b8f99243ea04918b5f734821054