Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d56a3a88a6d50614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d8c96f30ffff57669c8b4d2267c6abf9 SHA-1: 2265be354e0a90693421ecb8844674849690f311 SHA-256: d56a3a88a6d50614386e6c7a2f5265f5f0d5d18b400554071fbeb17fa9fced99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a spearphishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/76304106689.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/bizugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawrence-spruill.com/clients/42275/File/72945193237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/fuvezowidopeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/tabumelisoxujerisafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/50415446793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4827df85a81900eb05101cd15380514/najejaworebejamaleledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/xewoxitiranobatebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavikogurebevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///nuzaradiwevaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abouelhoulgroup.com/userfiles/files/sunurarazovodolixodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085069d07887---jafepojusej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88e919cf49---94364948681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/88270229589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73944573768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/rotugelifazafuxinubuganuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607924fa69af0---50668729048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/19660761191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dqfg65e8ik8g6gh5bnn5f78ot6/jamajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ece04334bfabf2a654c825727b1953c/lakilifusixalokalirade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ea978cd305b0e2734f2a949c49fc84/bexunaridojagelexala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/82266549926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/160554194429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdc416ff9e---54128950535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997487a6e2c54a8b41a319123e1ce137/70757416147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cornell+notes+template+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_off0000e50e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE50E 17964 bytes
SHA-256: d59e0ec8f5e1a83b7f2ed4444266e8c950ee7045526e0aedad06a8b339edcfc1
font_01_sfnt_off00011379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B90 10596 bytes
SHA-256: ead098acd972721792393ea661f7e5c08dc0c7192d3ecfd105ebcc982b5d0eee