Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be15ed304ce4f7b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:22:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ff0f20a41e64554db8497e29348cec84 SHA-1: db57ec802645d6ea2cf22f2d7f25ee2c65deb2ce SHA-256: be15ed304ce4f7b84fb18dc55131abf3858a881c1c3382c5108b3a7044bed8b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URI heuristics and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614824229ac4b---sitarepero.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiroruvabezenopilopolibov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/liximamuwalezunawisugisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/losikanererolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/perexaxularepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukienmiennam.com/userupload/files/powiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/kuvemigif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/48064027214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5394472abedd84875fa140cbaa2f30/puzakonabunezuzoraxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef811db921---60002721678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phm.vn/upload/files/70967034058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fluffy-chins.com/images/file/25200360483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/zalobetopisami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/78691968163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75022319549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conrays.ru/f/data/bebeliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/tebadilanisamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021091003123173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaiminhhanh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xikifoxadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/26369051873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144593c45a4f---9773112845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53914734028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/tiwugebimetelosekekujuxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=large+file+downloader+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b212.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB212 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 64740ea3b8ac101b17f7c1d2afef0d24062636611c1c9e7d4b9b4289ae966026
font_01_sfnt_off0000c928.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC928 14424 bytes
SHA-256: 186b2bc80fdcdd87f21bb79eceac90eac44805ec25cdf19eed7aea71406436d2
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1