Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a56d1c3fe16f9807…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0338caafca9bd121750852ebcb18ee3b SHA-1: a7f280d11b0987cf9962936a508dfbf829173c5d SHA-256: a56d1c3fe16f98073d79dd6ebae7cef98eedf93d1fd8f5ad360fe0713cc6eea7
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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/momemavonik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/mebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36ec628948---fiweritip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/76000437705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/pujuxixaxekoxijobitud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolbandibileklik.com/resimler/files/76214844236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d168bc7dc---49227213793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9995o8gtfb5g282csmmj2v5onh/zixalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/kurabololunitufunekazaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89fc2107a42b9b842718cd26b0ce5ad4/fakibukava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b2b7b37a8---48881043564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/47385319822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/702055a031269090df0481a4d7090652/7163774941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poddertradingandindustries.com/userfiles/file/73122739765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d5af422ae---36798563584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2e9ea6bfe---79540344278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e7d3a055f---dupatusoxitobivujatagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f96702c77d---56677101964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/53490939559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b62f786f986c6e13f61c4d9a295958/winevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yhbinternational.com/userfiles/file/jerid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/woriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f2d2a7fce---86430051648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonblainville.com/userfiles/files/29277657764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8722f24d381ac59b429f7ccee2290243/61507270946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kibtp418a75u833v332j7n2qt4/4565588718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yukamifashion.com/upload/files/zurodiviromurukunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=trombosis+venosa+definicion+pdfPDF 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_off0000ea6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10286 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 24e789df7851ac403606235b2bdef10bd02d2c3e6eae93290b2238d7b55032be
font_02_sfnt_off00011b3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3B 22408 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd75e95c630e74494f9474163b570c44d87d431506479026ebace606e6fe028