Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be2af37dadb8c167…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 16:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2f6cf8d0a97cec8142329b22ca96ffa9 SHA-1: 8a7721c0235376582a1025e93011f4ab797ea2fe SHA-256: be2af37dadb8c16782450bce4172b74cb192a1e47f328f15379f316d17863ad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it is designed to lure users into clicking on these links, potentially leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbef9629fd0c6c92b48a716c61f81ab9/301505497.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da3cf931606---3920341622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dcebc4c12559c5470d53b31288252f0/55148108153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/5a3bf2ba961927d71e10e31041c05ae9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608acad9646d4---92105900146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/era4vvuklm2pbbuqiov4i4d0l6/13467145954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmehoa.org/clients/d/df/dff1b85474dadb967ea0c40f6d5e37f8/File/11646406734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/69965012831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/23453371730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/dujelubolivujowozarojuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/sojoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/kibobexawoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f338300470e47ebda4136d0aa6e703/polisorelawesujita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c26b3800dcf732f4ddcf797999b85c8b/sokefevotubakizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e03786736c6---lutawavoladagebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apple888.vn/luutru/files/botisolutegoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/2861397777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqtmv0eqj1ub2oo0u3bjcnirc6/kezugesureruxigutomixuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc62be0e489---kawamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno-vrgorac.hr/files/21191665920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/134241193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fc959cfc3c1fa7b83e2f30579d159ae/nalozuzoluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931f7ab871c---43607353884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/sekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+an+example+of+chief+administratorPDF 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_off0000dc63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f47a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF47A 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 4f0375a7f5bd1159c37154e180df37eed0ebda73868c70edbcede551326f6cbd
font_02_sfnt_off00010dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC5 17224 bytes
SHA-256: f667b89bf0a35107f0fc3ba86ae4e08e15915624bd1da66438cdc1e987c4f395