Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be1e4d0d53763520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a0d33d07a611c349c380a874fa321682 SHA-1: 60e39875dfda95ae9b07cba3ad84e56b047e2e3f SHA-256: be1e4d0d53763520a07398c0363e210165c281f7adf4afbadd273f36d08cb199
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to domains that appear to be disposable or compromised, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=compass+directions+worksheet+year+4 PDF link annotation
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/45576705605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/65005617635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/rewirulupud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608301c8dc044---fulijasuxovidizosuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl4ulp9iisv6cngs70vf6oaf77/98853871607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/tobeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4007f85906---lajeritaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34970357083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8en8m7rabg3ntg1jvcd14gu3/88236466996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e5d4120f0b39c3209d06a60f4b65315/liturejakifetiwusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771a3b8a22c---wonufokaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holyfamilycyo.org/clients/37654/File/49371637220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a33c0c74969---84199273784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl5pfn70s4bfi2d7fo9ukempei/289815432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--p3t29jo1ed4o4xw.tw/upload/files/fegujutoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gachtrangtritranvinhtin.com/gachtrangtritranvinhtin/Images_upload/files/xawadona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifbscalidad.eus/files/galeria/files/sixojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ip1fu77bv6l0gbbmpjvs30png/70396295042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/45618989275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/33006202642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/lojuronokekagadodowukawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d04988a36c0---rimojukimixamorobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2964e8ae6668029e41acbf812ab696/fulumomuralireke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2358d5e900c35755f90f06bd14f0501c/75406842213.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_off0000e0ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0AB 11136 bytes
SHA-256: ef2803aa2ee0afd16751872e03dd6e3334005a941f1ad8ef6d4e0e0c5869aa73
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA98 16952 bytes
SHA-256: f798fe94cbea779fbd7a845ad365abba4cd23b6474415db4886ee396af180319
font_02_sfnt_off00012677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12677 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1