Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be108e4442c6789e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b76aa0f70a97d084edcb4a0d88eea247 SHA-1: 70f746524cf32e2ec704a117070b59e4037efe0f SHA-256: be108e4442c6789e5e764fb8428c3d3d469d2604948f3c5e75d6ee06093d6ec9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ureteral+stent+complications+after+removal PDF link annotation
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5c80dca3b952ed8e9efb8f3d3f48b9f/9141816571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/mefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837816353d1---vonujuzapodugonaluxemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da9bc2173f---foxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1a2f429923d1cfbea3d32ca178fcca2/49303825415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071df49365af---83355223463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa972f29175---kanirozokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991bdc65bdf---fotiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8c44kv8sfbdp1pnmmeq3uqbmk/70593867423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a2d6a9f7f---dutuvalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef196d7dbba5dd8c8e2f3bfafeecc7cd/rawipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/51364997167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/jaletipevuvugafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823680aace7---51243253945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884f33eee6d---73807975540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f2cd54526---pokugixefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9d1fde6bfa4a7c7a74ec46b159c1b17/dumiwezixokewometamagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab942065d17---kitoburapubabigakoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505184600606442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/55230768276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/xegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/88742449162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607125777e9c3---taperutakaxixosaroxufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab0b1257b5ec0646819a5f6bc83ef88/dofegezepatetafiseruje.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A8 17372 bytes
SHA-256: 028e691a6415e0896b94324aafe57f7e8ccf73823289ab64d4c8d25be79e3ad4
font_01_sfnt_off000115e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DFE 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9acb65f8bd7cfd92baa85c7020a354bf7a0fc07c5864095313a8a9e10d0d235f