Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be344e8f1c1611e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 17:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d307d341e0d47ae4fdf012047a5a3c92 SHA-1: 32627be3bd5a007f47fc2efeaa94d3dd5db22469 SHA-256: be344e8f1c1611e39738a2b05e644afc99029d9e5ae0b126f2af1faf2848f900
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or other disposable hosting. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute phishing content or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/felapdgtq8euhk3229q4lfcmm2/gusabekutetusoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/fegibevajufidumid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fca96e74a6b3c9013fab92600560c88/8121753999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb2d094c9d---14771835671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodufimalexezolonuwuvawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windmill-bv.com/userfiles/files/biwipuxudafosoravabuziboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/70056019527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0106c86f062fc703d4ba0d3a86a0974/87892849209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/77589940642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/nevekosixex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882812b5171---vepufevikidoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/46823566996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d10b4fa00---51300031931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ea8e803ecc1228f68aee2f20ddbb8d/97906897825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enotecagaribaldi.it/userfiles/files/83857781460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962813ca5c3---37868586892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8aa5184d1cf24d6d391bda0bdf84a4/nuleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73abf881ba718aef1e6e253e09de370f/49210833275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97350e2da861148abf9d1e4997c3b735/32757071640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/sosuwidetot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6k866vgpqq7chvnc655vdkgnad/48716072456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f01e5f01dd---17342611603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37376b05397d18313fdbf8c5c3328664/57348019428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741696320ff1ceee9a229c0c343148aa/66863245096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=something+is+awryPDF 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_off0000f163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF163 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10975 18944 bytes
SHA-256: 3e4ae88d78d73ca0754abde92e6b2d5d892001302cea972d5671a8f7afb78e35
font_02_sfnt_off00013b00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B00 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 4daee14fe271ac85f9499be14678acfb797773fb930b56d669b78f031bd4aa32