Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be0c42a48144eeb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-12 17:07:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 6c6f992c2e2f2cf36f537a521c6b811e SHA-1: 8c6e715fdf19919ce17d9d21d94881cc64260e3e SHA-256: be0c42a48144eeb7e7e1ca5e26bfc6f07f14750d6a93a29cd20c8dad828a94ec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to external PDF files, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/35623941189.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/gijumiwobaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/15449509683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/19805744738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbb87b1fef---vepareziludelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f114edc792d---pileruzozizeruwitafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/39965777186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/fipupagesopipixako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/37025186649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/44746633587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/tosexesajisidutuluxogunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fitaselotijibekulude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ip6fb5h1seho9colbdisl40p0/19591582431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54a1e1c84d8cb9b41eaa8f10481ab78c/14387110702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmfnepal.org/userfiles/files/favezakedewefolemede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82fn7661jgofooh0v9viuqvok4/89544658897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usdcp.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/batejugadotetubemitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/ludozezopuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/21245907982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///solipobafizetisidagobevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2f2384aada9434d46188fe3b2ce896/lafixapitejibaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gta+v+android+download+apk+%2B+obb+ebPDF 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_off0000e304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE304 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 6fb33a3ac5b9aa3f0e335056222e4bcb718891b03d33465e0b899e425028cdd8
font_01_sfnt_off00011057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11057 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001286e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286E 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 91218e41bc522cf0484ab04f56bd17ff759d61e4d1745ac0ca33b2d7d95c1bc6