Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be484a9d2daf4212…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fba81ce05c79ce8ed9783d0f1f992f87 SHA-1: 51984adbb8a4bfa1416d22a273274085c6160af6 SHA-256: be484a9d2daf4212819c180f490f659a6fdaa4d0fcb1677a8cfd8c62b07fb8bd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including external URI links and links to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' indicate a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a payload from one of the provided URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+pocket+tanks+deluxe+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364ada553a5---77618188231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/95489442304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a7b822912---nirebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/93736890773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/nenofotudoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/20915817244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/pinowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/woxovati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/13349451612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/64245986038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents/files/46824040323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136061cd3564---14594770022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/28601356649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoauytinhaiphong.com/upload/files/nikakezilesifumifimogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehfermobilsaglik.com/userfiles/file/domujidamezaveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e27f78cb8---vimax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/27222093325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/33345181309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8c3862e7b---25204514349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjp2-hotlink-j3t.com/contents/files/19203693180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdvvietnam.vn/webroot/img/files/nafixusepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beba45d28c7806f34f6978818c266581/82974264364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d02272f9c7c0424ed1fb644b617723/32816766792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/gidemegixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesei.com/In PDF document text
    • http://landroverbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C8 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 9ba6273ca66d8b40d14e61d47db8f4088210ecf116c2b088b5d94107fc83d0fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0F 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 2901d105aa5ff686b7aa0ffecc7e2832e06aaabdcb0b1cc58699e8707fde289b