Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c56f0a441d463fbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 08:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a3d75989a2157f18f104b0853f5ec53f SHA-1: 53e42b4f3d15fe1672b4117e15a54be35b3258c6 SHA-256: c56f0a441d463fbf30732f4a18c49e6d3c412fb3424cb822e0e46eb06206c7d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to external resources, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+games+on+play+store PDF link annotation
    • http://105chers.netsociality.com/upload/files/zafafabifuvevupaxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/tibiwikekezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/wulevefigomumotafulikizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ccb0613cd---nifunezosirudezadewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75296215822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b06fe0aa00---1684094412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26408019815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettynblue.com/upload/fck_img/20210913/file/54281503004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614001f6dde38---xurabafobutonil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94f8d0c637d2ca84832f8fd49ef6593/jokoruvifewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/wegotadowubamib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuys.handysociality.com/upload/files/labulopuxijesusanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/2462816725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejoxapaxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewegawodoxubamomiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/37855139674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/gelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mavelikaradiocese.org/rapha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53570623235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615156c9c81c6---rinobubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/9094936761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/wufijowaxujadatojaganinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms1oke.com/contents/files/terefazoripekovobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/serisikoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74093052199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000af4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF4B 14296 bytes
SHA-256: 273b75594254792bdc3e6fe744b104f4ff456805e430715a56cf5fc27b4ec086
font_01_sfnt_off0000d315.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD315 10824 bytes
SHA-256: f305610c250e7fb31c1dbd1c6026e29223a4e454f4cb8ccf5be7ac5d61000fc8
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1