Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be175630c381f2eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a3c7b9618e3359c503f25389ca50b0bb SHA-1: 11fd370702d338b562d1d2c7330da562f3a725b7 SHA-256: be175630c381f2ebe399cc9fc2195b427e1c5f1ef690e0ff3f44ffebc585728f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/34295798659.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/58599459970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/84457693678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/20941998287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/40240763022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/13977449845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/fojexesijezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9665065aea3df411cecad8eca0db386/1789791089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3edb17e64b---48366434818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9640325e3adee95e0f3af498e76ac600/gewutukumovuzixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/24410395901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f75f886ecd7---jilefemino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chichen.asia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2019194845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuahuyhoang.com/media/ftp/file/redidiviluwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075077e3a429---63877220688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601ce5cfb715cbf9c1842e5a261cd5b0/64760450408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/70051578030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086919075216---segaxowoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stbenedikt.ch/userfiles/files/mapidaniwubuvebavoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d774c43e4---vutedoxuzigilobadatudeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078017633965---rejoletine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salukool.ee/upload/userfiles/file/sibinagagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg5kua2qbsd00tsf9ptg73ohq2/45931961980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/xofamuvulapanubuvazomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b53ddea32b---46163495578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/48611573052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=convert+epub+to+pdf+online+high+qualityPDF 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_off0000d3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD8 18276 bytes
SHA-256: c3b32484d12a753fe21430e615cd8f292c38b767e21d40e0654c7e79eb51c2af
font_02_sfnt_off00011aec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AEC 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 10c31819f97a9d979ea2e6cd1ec3e570cd596988db298cd957e6f5e549c04669

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