Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be3d603dd2dd52ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ffbbaf390b823db643f233cf789616a3 SHA-1: 3d020afb47ba4fd3566498358d1a93b24cd7d3d1 SHA-256: be3d603dd2dd52ab7de68bc22922d05de6670ac86bb13fc59ca0c19944fad978
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://namdolove.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210805_09101941565679F4.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41398834974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd6502bab9a0c7718511325b6965b1f3/54142743709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6b2ceefed---mubadalixuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cece27d1e27---37023796152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca0b6c6e26---mejajibenufelafutujaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6dc76f0bc---59319729572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abba374e3d8---16460068904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3179eecb57a1f7f858e9a123a06afbb3/45052257155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/52807945688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cb5c7d53b---junonasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/034c556374112cff78d5ff079be6bbcf/50061646160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c2baaf785b55310dd19449253f7acb/sobebekolixexubigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/levevinulupefabotozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/10354101035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/63981081678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34366493246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1c4c9842f6c9ffdf9ce011c362d55d/65311586180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/jenigufomatumelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/78399019448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/tuxosukifukanafoxigudosoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/68481129194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52dd85cc76b8ebc18a89121b2dccb38d/64467184074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=bcom+1st+year+books+pdf+2019PDF 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_off0000f632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF632 19040 bytes
SHA-256: 3c45586cd4ef73e8b69bfcfd1fb0a63090f909362198f083d8db4deca2246d53
font_01_sfnt_off0001275c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F73 11400 bytes
SHA-256: fc54d22b40aacc61a945179cc53b0b1da5360dee04d084bce227b2149152fc8f