Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be0481a13268292a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

170.7 KB Created: 2021-10-07 17:53:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11ce296f2cf97efc4208b74f361dba47 SHA-1: 00496c688a9f1b551ba065f67cae4703d0602df7 SHA-256: be0481a13268292ab1cd52e8572c4d0661f96b0b4d4db2d2f5c558327fa2815a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://pgp-puh.hr/fck_media/file/99530170893.pdf
    • https://discovery99.com/userfiles/file/70646615468.pdf
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a88f335adcbe65c4b5fbda9c213beb3f/vutukodikemurevewixudupem.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0c6ebe88dad919beae64349156050c7/62130263326.pdf
    • http://drprdesaihospital.com/uploads/43206049828.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f804b405d---74611500966.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b226938bb---19036499586.pdf
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63418162427.pdf
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3459045402.pdf
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/63521556502.pdf
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210908004832017.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1519fff40c9d5c2835be642987e08653/xetofepuma.pdf
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/12699588631.pdf
    • https://kozlovka.mebel18.com/uploads/files/zoxenibiteputamu.pdf
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/vexezufoduxibu.pdf
    • http://irc.kz/data/content/file/83990628443.pdf
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/5145987868.pdf
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/37953550854.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159ff6596c7a---wukarudanirodub.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9pif8eu3j9mc2jbrhb9fejgb50/77164145446.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcu6o92oe1iuv4ua8qsenv2qah/30188469993.pdf
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/dodotajofusawe.pdf
    • http://aquitaine.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33277957046.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=geoffrey+chaucer+a+knight%27s+tale
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00022cc7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22CC7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000244d9.bin
a24e36ad0f284c37b7282000a0985b749369da390f6d02310d4ad8c09395531b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x244D9 25132 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002834d.bin
4841abd992a85177017727564358b8afb4ce816ebc3c5ee4b5844ab8f7b98196
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2834D 10996 bytes