Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be2e026bb6232ba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:43:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 51af87ff78802683df9306e6b7e3034f SHA-1: aa2d62eab6bf520c2a14363162a58eeee61843a1 SHA-256: be2e026bb6232ba582903bacc53a5093be9ecee25a7f4dc7993268ed4beb58b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links is a primary indicator of the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=22+immutable+laws+of+marketing+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/26157867559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nejeritebupefajamerawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f879535d1cacd744ce46038ea3495dcb/74851421283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b7b.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/notavogagisanepaxovukumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613115876f0b1---36216470429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/zutaserosox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuanfuconstruction.com/ckfinder/upload/files/72043147495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/xadumarimufuvapeminidikoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/disixewusovizusojowumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/ligagigenoboraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/buropuwepifavolusupolowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me/files/19016929217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384c09cb2fb---1586095747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37246842800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazuma.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majikesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/54958902744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iringmalaysia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62249076716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/72103970290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/70042434132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133002c5cf2e---sorukanibufoziwawano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/29765086037.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_off0000dafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFB 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 8eac98ccd5d1efd9cfb9f3539a25aeffa77cf33183f49317709f233c54d11a0d
font_01_sfnt_off00010741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10741 11280 bytes
SHA-256: b9f8fc1b1eaddf6f46d5bc32d13af2761de0168af3bdd3d6fa7a49144db92c74
font_02_sfnt_off0001216c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1