Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be53334900881bc0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-06-08 18:54:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9e8d84a3f2cab5c00968ffdd278bb1ed SHA-1: 338f907533b21f79ea09ca0061d1543f5892b945 SHA-256: be53334900881bc015b4e1b427c8a95c42eb77d1b5e9cdc6e84b5b76a9bf39a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely to phishing sites or to download further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+rom+cia+download PDF link annotation
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/87344123479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/matufalune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82b21c43e5e2d74a6efdc7c25b89be48/44202554671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e93370768---lepegeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/dukutijuguzatugezizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/xukuluzabekixusimuvibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ab242a76c0b1e11fb7bf1f91c1334ca/lexagileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c60d624323256a4bf88a7268ca54d378/52617411814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070367f28315---futuxewimuxoxidizanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/porumipukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070360158add---85936944887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/gopisuwabukezawamuvamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc44d32538---galusodagipejiwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eecfb770cc---69444061976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904608a72ee---32463762808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210506224541205661718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheiden-maassluis.nl/uploads//file/13533023501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FC 5248 bytes
SHA-256: bd3b3f11a1f70800fa24985bfd5275d6cb9beff9b773087c6b29ad5819f77d98
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 1b6b48475ae76698ab6204c22c53d1b8f08c898692b837e4fc9d214fb2f8c993