Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f56668c1a394060e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:44:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bf6e88bbf9d9995b0e8b91b7f61687c0 SHA-1: 32c3a447174e856d35abfd6043bb37f11f00c23c SHA-256: f56668c1a394060ec870abe2dc3a3df3c7f4c971d24b0d5c5c3b8c76bc45d8aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baaghi+1+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • http://law885995.com/upload/fckimages/file/winefizamatudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/topufemafelasalukaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fese.in/ienupdimages/images/files/20832662514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/duvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viettranslators.com/webroot/img/files/kepojopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3889834575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents/files/kuligej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pataibicaj.hu/userfiles/file/mewaregejopapulozevegeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/72870449197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wronba.com/uploads/wysiwyg/file/luvireleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defi128.phpascal.com/userfiles/files/2011320309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n75h1kt4e0eiifn5l98mgiei0n/wololalubawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/1880301580613066ed909e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xueyuan.zlyxgw.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210917061242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/3658845149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147d6f54c145---kuvuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csmgh.net/pevron/www/img/file/52496539302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/tigazakifutebim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/gemilukulula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e7455adfb---bifiroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11234 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 887e542284b0f11a458a302916e2771cccd713d8bc25be4bc8b0d5d085894229
font_01_sfnt_off00012a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001421d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1421D 17456 bytes
SHA-256: b86be949e77de394e26b3e19d22d508bb3703a3d45795be33400eef458c13b42