Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be28d49c815bb37c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-10-11 11:13:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: ab50a470aa5d62831912cca630c2693e SHA-1: b225616b297014f579cae036f5ca7c4a1fecb476 SHA-256: be28d49c815bb37c8da59dedbc4c8cc5410ab067afb9ac16b01b472e120f8ebf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+you+want+out+of+life+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://weddingdove.tw/uploads/files/202110110252335604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09d141d622b09941e775bbf817163ad/solovewivukenupasupokege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7cf6410fe---bexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347554bf06a---32473925004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuketwebstudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26860802769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/sajonuzegobamopagukamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161594b4201ac7---dedesefukusadiwenorukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.fr/ressource/site-image/files/14932459680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.nl/userfiles/file/31658157627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swaarm.de/app/webroot/upload/files/desamovazovilonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songdolandmarkcity.com/userfiles/file/27775474717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibois.eu/userfiles/file/dotakunulizuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pacemakerpressintl.com/uploads/assets/file/96235653390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/gowigapifezedefiwulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youxsoft.com/uploads/files/51848813203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/17977022111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/tisanudonowipewejiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616359a72ec33---72751395448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/41333478311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/64098054856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenobiacultura.it/userfiles/file///37078012077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/sifafimufavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aicsmindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupukukijijoxeromaju.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_off0000d3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D9 18940 bytes
SHA-256: 448e307ebcab5f1294c20c1640cc54d6dd9e3d3425882506240200380e9f3207
font_01_sfnt_off000104cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE3 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 9a623c39aafd9b363e5670e2b84c37a8c6b576d471805f835eb1fb9fc3584360