Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be1bae0c685b345c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-09-29 08:17:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: eae6f24a5065b0cbcefdf5b7bc958ff7 SHA-1: f05bf4618facf4175f29e2db0cb5da446f9e1065 SHA-256: be1bae0c685b345c5ea52797ebaf08cd5f318024fa09c3473b37fc3844055e0d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be an image-based lure, typical for phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/83280732162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suncables.co/images/file/56298755002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vers-ma.de/userfiles/file/80386470052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b86eb0c7c5---89972567148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613866aa637d4---virelovezutejujixivogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/98956172709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfollowers.com/ci/userfiles/files/75106106111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logenamerica.com/userfiles/file/64151645302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsf-vastroad.com/userfiles/file/sivimaweliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamvickwhitebeck.vn/luutru/files/gazises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/35471420695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terrietanaka.com/library/files/13683515624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/minerudazulikatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smartlandgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35303273289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/zasemajezezogufotemikofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/10922463026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/fadogepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebarufajudugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149d547cf47e---45710101075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.depomatrial.com/file/45700667110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleuriste79.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31962324122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pjteam.hu/uploads/16930299740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=developer+settings+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_off0000ac81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c498.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC498 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 9552b53ce0fcd19e9e85b36ebf3a5809618c6abf7a29839992355ffe5dd9d7be
font_02_sfnt_off0000dcd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD3 14176 bytes
SHA-256: 911c1fa2cbefd1e2d903328bd8e0cb96c149ce8b45cbfca1e308ac7d8701dbb1