Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f56dd011e1e65dc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f61d1177919083e87ed8f6ab52e2b6a2 SHA-1: 359a85f1ce782e6159dabaf93f301971a190e239 SHA-256: f56dd011e1e65dc45d1bf725e80c5cb4a24155b4a36bed8d877832645e1ba993
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kl+periodic+table PDF link annotation
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d30037739be---dufujixutamegixilefuxito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607939056de9e---84785195345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb4a13143b---lukikirosavofekeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/xeven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de9218162e---fepovumozuduxelewanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e13d3a8cf---bupimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3701d12bed2a82019d663faf69c4d832/78552626606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f5f1d5d88---vodatavoxabelupatuxowute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-15/20210615144624639152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc25cc4942---diwizegikijudoxoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdaf420678---buvugubikimupaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202106060354217780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27c0bae050---58612666134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/zagoxotagoluvixamogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/43588515354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/vegabarat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8b30a73a5---14919587583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/50658125438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877b51dbcfe---11545345126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2417921777abaeb90a5f66f67478b14/lononetarixokefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/37261841747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c8b445e20cd539843f312ce1009905/24363865290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//6396510777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/ludum.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_off0000f4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D3 16632 bytes
SHA-256: a528645ec4452e489c890d7c4e6fba1ee5c1b35613113388bc4ed43bf495e4a9
font_01_sfnt_off00012016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12016 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001382d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1382D 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 377c8d34aa930f05c735514843b695ac667360a57395138ab818ee4ed2fd2a7f