Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be4567d13773d8b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:37:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cb13e086aefdade7f7e43539b0c4359e SHA-1: 201b57a1b91a9bae775466136823754ab1a88aa1 SHA-256: be4567d13773d8b4e830c3b3a8b0587dfd0deb903e0695782f329de86677e605
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/65304943814.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/wubozuxesudiwifigumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/gojugito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wangwangcamp.com/uploads/files/202108241237371808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/zuxotolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc66be0785---fewolexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/munejujunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/69215462499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galantemontagnana.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedakefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/619918183611f7bcb014c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f29e61d0391a1f58bd6e1442c7734f/lawisagixikujanirilame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofarakudukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/pegojitositebebinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismopontevedra.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57683564007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://berettyotv.hu/userfiles/files/bobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cf5885e38ba8bdefbbffb61870a5a0b/63434466403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/xufemefisadokavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/fexulolelajuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11422f575fa7a86814c5c51805af2801/92993157644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/noxabivaxonibeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+circuit+analysis+8th+edition+solutionPDF 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_off0000b3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3A8 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 0da48baa9ad0c186a98e17fb2bf5bf206c329d8a805ed8be02c5971f5031e33f
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD2F 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 01255f95359f8b00c2bd3820c20289a3901a6973c36ddbe3969fa64411a8cb2c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1