Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be0567d98353ba35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e2f588ab954f86194cf4c583f432317 SHA-1: c796c47c62731c73210acf6d6fc1f96d8d2f4878 SHA-256: be0567d98353ba35dcd393235840aeaad3aa348632474eb7f3b59a4f5c16ea5f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm strategy to direct users to potentially malicious downloads. The presence of multiple external URIs, including links hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+total+sms+control+apk+download+for+android
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/3962900604.pdf
    • http://www.slappedtogether.com/editoruploadfiles/file/36367479884.pdf
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/gasosotebifiveturos.pdf
    • http://hiro-seiko.com/upload/files/48927473812.pdf
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c1fa682fe---12401207123.pdf
    • http://xaydunghoangthanh.com/img_duhoc/files/99136237337.pdf
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/sewiwope.pdf
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/danazupapes.pdf
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/58494191735.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ad47859385---jevevi.pdf
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/80687073991.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad2e38f016---61654072787.pdf
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/baxizi.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60b4554d2a718a95a14d430235beb98f/13437788788.pdf
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/kezujokopikemexatetube.pdf
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91595013003.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772e7990a9a4fceb041ad590eadd7fff/xunevepokoz.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614214cfb471c---66737550796.pdf
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/xufowa.pdf
    • http://dichvu12h.net/userfiles/file/jogim.pdf
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/87229493529.pdf
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b567e86189---zoxopefizenaro.pdf
    • http://express-service-auto.fr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofonexof.pdf
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worojujuze.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqgft6i22bb8l15n052i56ja9q/teretewapuvutodu.pdf
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/bujaloveduwixuloganapab.pdf
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/24466567006.pdf
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/78397595108.pdf
    • 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_off0000eab8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102cf.bin
17ef1b92b3a2ec3d361a8b587d8636b9b5fa371750884a2f14d6705eceb93795
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CF 10936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011c30.bin
2c59a71276d121a858f894412dfc40a7d75885dd91f6d2c49b5bd62f10cc851d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C30 17668 bytes