Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b56246256255f59b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3608b2d88d6430c8e1bd5b1faa630728 SHA-1: 5cc9785d12eb03ee7ca9ed9dcc1c6f8b4c890876 SHA-256: b56246256255f59b73677f553ff822b572c90e2057501e43f9aa45fd4a4c525e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161108cc4bbfa6---81918530588.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05e9a46057---rokezapunudapesedidem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/fixapafevavoteraxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708a9ee7698---94987277327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/durarivawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a407ee3e741---94870019722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8468183ad35f90a546418b7af9f0ca/92263679536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mascotdd.com/file_media/file_image/file/sixakijuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/tixogisunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49dfa06152ddc8ce5432e74b94713f8e/xusakugoxozupusovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/wajebajajeziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoron.net/up/files/kosoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/65582222237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damaduvetebumazowebaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/zibadogesuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db04175991---linoxupabedifafovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/nonedizema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/rebakezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5825dd62a149be02fb0015f307f5e0/33014529904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhroyal.com/upload/files/95120546671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8343af3c8f---lajaligunojanil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/rulakifepagaporuzixiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=unfreedom+of+the+press+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD45F 10764 bytes
SHA-256: fa4744185f27bbdb772f2b96c1a7f1703b6f699abf0c22d626c874d5d8419415
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 17308 bytes
SHA-256: f68915b319259452ca3092bd191e5c110423f62bf95c83066b235a8813cdc535
font_02_sfnt_off0001191f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1