Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d56305b168af1762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5f093a9fe174b9bfda25d4661673dc03 SHA-1: 8a0463b175eef320c3889a1d2680fbfbfd6137d1 SHA-256: d56305b168af17620f8f6b2b0dd5f844cb6f3e2408373c06caa87d9786d337b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to domains that appear to be compromised or disposable, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond what the heuristics indicate.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hurtowniaroza.pl/upload/files/fekaxumuwir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/vanovowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/60364255802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/34267936189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073fd574be72---54255542543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90h1vvomc7p6bkr81l4rq951km/39900301759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e55391c43---75594116054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080812718baa---wunasawikabobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd38968067---59952616159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/62940340641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a089fea6775---84307978668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943ab2c0c6c---96956069199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/8546009918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c76e71f80c0ef1440827a1715b363f49/fufurimenakiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa867109b222c932a59d309c6139a1ac/8153022536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f5ece4d7f---vuguzixilurepotaduraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mu2vum7o2f9p3fg3hr9e41j92/vorosazunajebosomuxiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3fbcf516685490b501530d213175b7e/melipikivebewexazesarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/kejifodejapigujepakasefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de4e5f41e46---64397742622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/wetowilunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfdfb40d6e---81581331336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15584134a3---70558541770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c40f0bedb0526b75788e446ec5b0d73/40925503567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nimujodedomukowabaxugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+analysis+and+design+of+linear+circuitsPDF 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_off0000c088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC088 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d89f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: b667790e7499887d4c37e41cfa71e014857a9d1ed2bc2033a9a502f9146a9b4b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B9 16800 bytes
SHA-256: 77b0255eeda7f1e91b48c034e0c785a5bf33cfd763e1b9e660a4fa50e790d6f7