Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2be883339a24586…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 20:37:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4ae3d5af570225c4cc6a4881d79fa957 SHA-1: 44e31c4f1d8ab39ea937ad79aaae46b8a06094ee SHA-256: b2be883339a24586a78b63bfcfd7f5d45dc8d97576736b0c11480e7c045d0562
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware. The embedded URLs, such as https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+ultimate+sp1+32+bit+iso, are likely part of this malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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=windows+7+ultimate+sp1+32+bit+iso PDF link annotation
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b02538743---xafuduviveguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floridadressyourhome.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/54484467147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgwealthplanner.com/crm/files/vabomunifowuwiluluwobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eatvirukai.lt/uploads/files/12671492626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902054954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.madiran-cruduparadis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazekufasovezenusefonene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/zelatadexejinenaluxavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snf.styleguides.ch/userfiles/files/67382870217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/mavudamukunadopuletel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdental.hu/editor_up/safedisujimira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/golasisamabinaxanijita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoya.hr/UserFiles/file/26626255706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/60686004481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b2b592021e721745b732e511458b6d/64247359163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents/files/17816077040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nato-denkmal.de/uploads/file/todemosuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397f376069a---47841852764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493e4773fe6---52096898390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.socksnbows.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamuzufisena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f50ef1de99---79592415981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/budufenufokufuzaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83093040109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/lanageno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137bc24b5756---32198197336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/nivelilen.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d83e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83E 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 841a017275a86e81d2d7eeb44d2406d72a0384e0759403c6f2e595e213aaf077
font_02_sfnt_off0000f243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF243 1684 bytes
SHA-256: 9c928bf144e3eec6b0e52ae2bba533670589b2228405e28e178bb89e049a64b1
font_03_sfnt_off0000fa3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3B 20532 bytes
SHA-256: 01c2d53e1a6088bee2410d782873c70916a595a72af81a139eb62363d487a2dd