Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be2b24e0c8b62240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 10:45:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 36cbf404d3117756bea2f2c1d101ac03 SHA-1: 4a7c90bef4ecd80c1dc9624236abf477ca04d098 SHA-256: be2b24e0c8b622404fcfd18b1c17d1003f2ec4494dc56214e56e25a148d49394
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and the use of compromised CMS upload directories indicate a tactic to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f4e8ceadb---vasopenazepowumojixodim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/kifipefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a539b9b59ba---wetajisimuvopawaxebotafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/790de39482b456232d912c8247ebd887/dotuwavabibojigupemikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/994d1152fd956d2ee44fe80a55e47017/85020065945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749736e6a28---74481476070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfera-vlad.ru/img/file/28434235956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090222fe2e97---73039077364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e0a10d719---nazobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17c3c2bfe1499b5b02643a89c6d5680e/xebebotunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/50450713261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647bc7d264965430198b6cd6a32a9341/zizuvumiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8bc2d9956---96208215945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4290873e4---jafarotaxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jkq5s9phkj8p4gq6nsjalcni0/degotomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/vonepanisimito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc2173ff45---17918652868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c56d65496452828930176169469a23/72016730650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solemarservizi.it/userfiles/files/voridetutubunulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/birelatoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c6a2a6e73ac53dbcd663aa78e9104f/xowuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/60492826467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/wutakapiwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=list+of+all+australian+spiders+with+picturesPDF 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_off00011147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11147 17908 bytes
SHA-256: 38ebfe940759a134ae7f9ae0f0ec302528f6b7a4d2ca9041fb1d9f90d62aff21
font_01_sfnt_off00013f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015780.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15780 10860 bytes
SHA-256: df55db96467897b89e5c8471062876b143b6111f30f6feaaa72948b0fc712c1a