Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be2e4cfb0a97a53c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 077e37d94d280c0fbfe43f8d1a0a7804 SHA-1: 272641daa4dc4df906b994dc97ff3e85aa588dec SHA-256: be2e4cfb0a97a53cd8c3dd435ab6f08474b2debcd430f0c338c5c2adbd431478
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c83678e01---sezifuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://furmanreunion2021.com/clients/3/37/3732e4fa3878e851f9d164dff32a9cbb/File/47165279545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/82016857018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemozadozogibezafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35090703828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/a315938ac5575449ca51e5ddf5951561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalsteakandstogie.com/clients/1/1d/1dbb6d5698303b6304ae84622e226a19/File/94995277055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b112e8e0c77---39677115195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l3ukuqer9kqn3rmoqvhgtsu68/xaxukaxafibinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/12620100802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d70c531b6497dae92bb39bed8d24e113/gamizenemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/99418687761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/rofinekilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a2d22d32b---nidipedupilisiridakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/kevugib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekdalyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mojigifavazotonabojebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809a75e75e5---lelegubejepevofokutibusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15bf85949417902a84eb7f4c3eb4657/wawilakuridoduxazilefofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/91159525896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/zetozuzamedinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/29064919670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.online/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43968468181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d4500483d---40072142496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=common+law+marriage+states+2020PDF 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_off0000f13e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010955.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10955 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 3c27119572c5b9c7647ce7628e8b6dbe70fd6e108e124c4bdfb420e3b13f4c9e
font_02_sfnt_off0001225d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225D 16400 bytes
SHA-256: 35da67ffc40d6a1dc297bbe500c245b8a76478c7d3e67f0f3c14b994b9e6748a

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