Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be418218f7c66b67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 07:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5ebcb406582d2867d373e51e30799147 SHA-1: ad2e70a7a53c5d799cc4c06b9219ed91f7677a34 SHA-256: be418218f7c66b6766257bdd7b6f615101aaff0e213355a2436acafd2f5f2970
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious PDF delivery. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///30890339931.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/98473275089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/6554434985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zakabosezizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yalcinplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/butul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8vmeu0045pipcsvc6prth1t6c/44787808441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/fexowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmoscm.com/contents/files/sepebalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atiksigorta.com/files/gitaxavalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/setepudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608437f157666---94171607472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kkbbpek0979jkjj5g0al0jd11/81063775810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160800c0938a6c---32890691702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolonauticofavignana.it/userfiles/files/fojaxezaworafoluxamisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b606287cf1b9552d90ac7913617ad8b7/bujeratajaxijadisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/39951661092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icwest78.com/clients/67591/File/48218687539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7qcjpeovlo3e4jjd1s107irofu/89806310942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/pizimuzisamubudedusimumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/8733377558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bff1f2e24---muzozurisaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b42436d686---21568956555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/79422307190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612633f3d0f0d---wapuwamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=resonance+kvpy+study+material+free+downloadPDF 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://kvpy.iisc.ernet.in/main/index.htm��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_off0000de44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65B 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 94bfd5b6f5d1e479d38ff78ad1a195afce353e256211aadd9af41a3f74888b73
font_02_sfnt_off000110ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EF 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 96a5ae5209a5204fd7a01efef6df67b764d73791121fb2875078aa2f6d305c2f