Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce403b52178966f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:28:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e404877f4a3a4e2b4a22c17d2728dc9 SHA-1: 51157f4e6a57c2feefa3a0bfbe98d1c7b161d6f2 SHA-256: bce403b52178966fb2ff7094ae38123b16b7459111357082a9cb02f3a17e8e3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9940

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aikido+technique+tome+1+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/vaxidetumojakijubageguker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/23694605614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d479d6d2bc---16228400278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/25598329567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p81m7ad3ftlc1c03i9fajvnth/3594285165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctqi8jn6hd9v1bunpg2eqmf801/nusipozejewededuwigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27qr21js2o1jpoe6c3rv6a3fs2/jafemamiwironimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e752f5a4a96ded4508a82c8415ad6838/30209544815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a103a2f12c0---wepipojupesapinikosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v1v7rqncmo999r9tq26ilqt2l8/75615908861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universe-micro.com/upload/files/20210713_203327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/sikumuwenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5281ce1edf6c371ef34bbb265f036bd/segemenowuvebaresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neocota.com/fckimages/file/dumavetisexebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/19599805907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/vixefutozelobemelalaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/wifujumidosero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/xuxisavexolelodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/53220782268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d852c61ce---77240129672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971bd16e222---juvibitifisunexowipuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/pakuniwosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/28166337159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keloxasalo.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_off0000d462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC79 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 8f335f8d7cfcd2beb2049ce6c50ef817b0b2efc0e2bce318fe9bedf69473bac1
font_02_sfnt_off000104e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E6 19908 bytes
SHA-256: b834808c6266068b847aafc78579b39babc0548cd6dae36bb54ae8b9e5b24909
font_03_sfnt_off000138e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E6 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 9a3a2e18459fa4cc965c9575987a707491d93fa649533dbe92c1350a28a6859d