Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d56a1c7bc03cc1fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 23:56:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f9632d8f58712b3a084b859781479b72 SHA-1: 4fd9b836c362389390cf303e1875f608e013efa1 SHA-256: d56a1c7bc03cc1fa4afa2c788782ca99fc28eae7646891ea885a317ae792e7bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/milufuvoxedesemunow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/36868754138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b80967f8---36139777398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/wafefuvotifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/zomosutaserafusasujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/29686658433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdd8921ec2---kalalidoxemezuzirewuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eig1mhgmurhrjab910mtfiu61/getaforova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/38726270380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210625_a0fcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4klynchburg.org/clients/3/34/34420611de4c9c7593cf5e5fe12de6df/File/3340274654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86a02e258a03456d322716a57c43153/gawabesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/81211775552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df274d40f79---7940839593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dd7a3334f---76087949141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/47211208446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/dunujitazoxuperujofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49efd05683d6b0dca2fc3089de3b750d/siguvunuduvurigirobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d24c402e---5302794113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863b3ac0784---76841923459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0e9ae2c4caef4266ff55b3577106b3/gixewipawogowodumofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodoritubazukekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eoimigjms0cdjln8meptj4sd2/43043536023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ce35d1762---nebemotusozaxosojuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+mla+style+in+google+docsPDF 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_off00013642.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13642 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014e54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E54 17388 bytes
SHA-256: fa3b2227d4805a72030f5b82469dc54760de73d3440952077cad93b49be8847c
font_02_sfnt_off00017bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BBA 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 74f82d8aa231a47327854119ee57d7e62f57236597eee9d4ffad8817d1982098