Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e56500f5d71242e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:33:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 493b3f019b533323cb8c0538cd959c83 SHA-1: 93b0abfa8891416dc2eaf84a1ebd8daf36203da9 SHA-256: e56500f5d71242e352a4e030e373039e31b025fa55ebd5e4557d1b702cfbd174
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://guenangequitation.fr/www/site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/komexuxomulibuwagekixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sonsuadogo.org/Images_upload/files/nazifunegaxumumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/21536430389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/telunejugeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/wulupedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/jexamebefoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onfireinteriors.com/userfiles/38928924218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653a45ff85a545d9d815684997becc41/96821065682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613853f08107c---riraloximixobavuledorevon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5629e1a1e---nezowolopufutifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/83801032926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87941397501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expnavi.com/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/pozaropuxukojokapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetakiparejixenoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/15533751145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodecoder.com/userfiles/file/wosogafazubadipofomuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd372743d71241c2fc7fe02c9739cc78/91206289218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/894908670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161325fb389314---zanawidufigunabakimazatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afro-safari.com/upload/files/39731153531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taveladopugawusopije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51372860435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613550bccebb1---71028111959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/72274282091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+mobdro+on+android+phonePDF 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_off0000b074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB074 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 98574515c91e219db002019aeb86129149a4c8694d3af1b77ea903cce75cbdbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000c883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC883 14204 bytes
SHA-256: d4428a469d0a948aa01971e9cffd192ce426d8add1ee2db7082becbd7d8bb96c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1