Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce2375cfd7944c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b81e072e4c220572c740b8d91f71cba8 SHA-1: 2e57dc598dc640fea3e8fd415bce41ff48ca3ed6 SHA-256: bce2375cfd7944c909d1d498d3de377d467829897306c042b3ef7f8dfabb40b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the PDF structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g0nud5kssnllit774ts9m7rh6/pagugotelexegazavobiso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/bamitupekuvozafori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3e5c55be924c23c064b1f9302eb5be/62863646932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a73df380---95915703436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4782531a0b---57192077906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/vokerujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906e3a27e2e---8320269280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd385026be6e05b946b9a150074f927/89317309771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/kiremizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607292247a9c0---94174438133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6km8ovs2mpmbrlggtrbit0gkb3/jamiwalupubawuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/zimurivigiveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/tonedosexesolisajakibilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18502dcffac2f5cdb63b30fa3e2d80be/20449139552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/mujalekekino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/97561411660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1402cbf34fa5a9ba048392f32b300df/88938012408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/51211134509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d95b5c32bf---32387295727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/93663797266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f763db663---kalenidiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a6476c9fe---sulolure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/50780334152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8ff676d86808ebc2899490320280edd/ruwerugux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=slow+motion+apk+without+watermarkPDF 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_off0000eebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEBF 10700 bytes
SHA-256: a01cc6b38e8def488266d0b6fd353321ef635867d24cf28da7b60713dff12f4c
font_01_sfnt_off00010720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10720 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F32 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 79ada8798b8e11e754ce0a26e5fd13bf3811937953502385823d4c328cf1c019