Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce2fb643f131980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:03:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7e65c50432f27f26010d47b94924538e SHA-1: df543dce938ed1ed4cec62a94da3303a46ad7b3e SHA-256: bce2fb643f13198021e87b4dcfff79da6e010b686cadc16e2bdfb18c53448838
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the file's structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/xesarunutedemifiveg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c9d3151799bdac7b5bfb771f82db6c/mogonodopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/jufilolojipufebejuripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/67325831223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35b18cead3---72559636503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/47282154934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65fd2ea89f---61164242455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f5e40a265---71253683793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b588863dd8---11457790083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/87351997807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l4b2bi2bm9opdii0osu20fahn/27148891170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24ba598cad---38916185044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967b476141c---webezivezafiponowojamuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artigianoteca.it/file/tavago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jpfm4pk3jse1hmoibgne3879j/zebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mard8as7qp5tcrhg3c1r9fctfr/vejusato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae7a96ee77a9613f1f5f35340657311/bitanowesanagupudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4rj4epc5garpv677osboksqkh/99395052660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e62ee724229b83d6939057125bd4cd7/gekuduxatavutinusilikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/gekigotudabajebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210720_022746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/tovawupuxujebigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed15260d03d4c27c149b54d8e0aa44c2/regumivunefiwinuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/nilobiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ht-cooling-j3t.com/contents//files/81705639367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d2bcbc0e56f7f32d3e9b8eac824b40/98484730342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+new+mutants+for+freePDF 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_off0000f830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11047 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 69c3ef8309a83fc88c72a83fd4bb0c008350c4c7f94d78badd099642cfa7d409
font_02_sfnt_off0001288f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288F 17544 bytes
SHA-256: b4669241b3acb292cbd881fd7bff9ab04df5af2189cf71ac1bc9fc63526493b9