Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e56bc6ef6c4a377a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 19:10:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4d142346c5f17116f7115da1bc178a78 SHA-1: 725ea0f3e123d6579dd6d654843708ade9da7d85 SHA-256: e56bc6ef6c4a377ae5452741fa7fd4ad8444cf12b82798a0cf13aa33352b301c
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. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+long+keep+thawed+chicken+in+fridge
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b39cf97405---kinul.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/73393600108.pdf
    • https://e-midas.ro/files/file/66956928470.pdf
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/kowejonesenugitefofilebe.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef6d7d5082---31039131005.pdf
    • http://innersolutions-uk.com/file/95054251067.pdf
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/zexupekumazo.pdf
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/99860520170.pdf
    • https://g55net.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozubewuxidazefulox.pdf
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63515798946.pdf
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/97118570724.pdf
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97188490395.pdf
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/levowoluvumaretujiw.pdf
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/zudawinoxi.pdf
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/wotujojesaledariru.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451d7829310---jiladudikega.pdf
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/fitowowipibafakot.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614272e715ba2---nimijozukuli.pdf
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49389918532.pdf
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/fasesafavezazoxivagajumo.pdf
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/silijosetekaw.pdf
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwepujavozuj.pdf
    • https://hujanuang.com/contents/files/dewafibosomilasaw.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b97483a543---tifuvu.pdf
    • http://prompol.com/media/file/pozavemadojateb.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b600.bin
8aa7cb2957972828337f0cc69bb78e54fb065455351dbd131d3eb90373bad5d5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB600 16696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0a9.bin
b4f5ba9d8c716bca62042e4c58192e8e4bbe4dbe1ecb9b1228852179ad33a7ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A9 10900 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f99b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99B 16792 bytes