Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e56b945c142dbf38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:06:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 72f45132eb1e29ad2b3dbaefd27d5652 SHA-1: 29815d51ee8b338608459117a17146ca3b413737 SHA-256: e56b945c142dbf385f8f327aa07fafd7e7032a33eeb32b581e09320c9d548089
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific intent beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/es5r3apl1qmojmc8groivfs7ak/37743472312.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/51694439517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenajarisiconstructii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e192761075---40788395843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5d5cafce6---namekaxasinalobamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surveycook.com/upload/tmp/202108/file/46331601778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14721132735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packturf.fr/files/20425417889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/depegumuwapasupomol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cf0f8dca04---89028864594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anupbolivia.com/images/files/vogowokeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/39313780944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/24343363027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/kolazabazaxofuxadexomeril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/minufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/tixinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenext.pk/userfiles/files/58826840256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/63390270375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesjust4u.com/clients/c/c8/c8a8d0e690f73854b1e7a5fbb9521f82/File/3872341875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents//files/76796968000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7d60ca402---gidadewuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/9453956653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15cc00ed3844c9b327fe22500739756/92463688760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775045cf978e2d2360d19e4a66029bb3/40924679494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/samevejebefujaxutot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/diluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14c8743899---28525729313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=thermistor+applications+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_off0000dc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF477 17924 bytes
SHA-256: c492dc040d7f9ba8772ccc918fb4de2e2a6b9ec8493a24cf446298a91d361388
font_02_sfnt_off0001229e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229E 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4ccf33a0b9e554d3fecc41653542746316b6a8f69c0ee5e15e3f391fab685a