Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bce9ea52f26adba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 674c5c9a87957db6c762f636da862903 SHA-1: fa376b4b2cfffc553b1c60d32f506ffff7c68414 SHA-256: bce9ea52f26adba12940fe468f55b6e3f2f901d0ada5ec3b700af1f0f4506258
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a second-stage payload. The file's structure and URL patterns suggest it's part of a campaign to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9742

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://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae9da0e8478d80588c3210c0f552fbc7/11087341470.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48cb8b0a00c4e9b3a4cab16feae6cdc/86652466138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/95213753025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bb005b40d---wumubogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cca410fcbe---44878259058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d624d9d8c6---648422140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf34206d43b4c7fb8af5f53827de21b2/munoxogoledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fffde305b8---burevijevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivomapovide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a651a58ebe4ea4e427d7ca3c5436fe/vosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130e0812557981eef5e5f3415f0945dd/27689071156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/97135739972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/xixuvomekabasepadabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41050f1549755a592ad75b5f479a2b8/95912847630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/jekovufamosabugiduvazuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da4a4ad384b---logorozinadumago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj81dtlcfho4nrdlj8c0lempoc/wetazilumotaxarufukupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/rozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843b3d78313---61989619525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65194164006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/54584472165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f74879537---fobaremor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/88486687444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22f1791b8e---53575317917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa735872d735db81309f577818ceef7/jatomise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/netatiguxawirufuvalunawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=a+strange+and+sublime+address+sat+answersPDF 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_off0001c249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C249 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 37c88311c144ba13f081757b11859ba2bcca85275488a5c20fe33dbf29082ac9
font_01_sfnt_off0001dae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DAE4 19236 bytes
SHA-256: 94e0b5e6fa7fcea422c002be583676b9f9a782d2f7603966d31e74a9065f4b84
font_02_sfnt_off00020def.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20DEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1