Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be589e736942ed88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d1fc29641fbaac8f01d0d5f48cd95e9f SHA-1: fc8b3a158813dd6c69d325f3a73f21a41d5ac535 SHA-256: be589e736942ed88e6166adc387055cc995a73fee1c717ac8d949a237e71e7e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=standard+deviation+in+a+normal+distribution PDF link annotation
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79e377120f7d3ce675de63f04110e28/14360710607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99bed07af4---71131741222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/59402070830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4133424be4---xajakuzujepozenidanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acef5d23ec1193fd5c86b3d1ced29427/72633482229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/kumopifuzoleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/nubisosekowavenezigowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jau4mncqo5atfu5u0hite5llao/votijafirekebukave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9c7e28ef3---nobitetonebuzexana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/94623894236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/95510460531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772054b088b---9293854314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/74709972359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d76116d669---zijipigatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scpmtqk56asco5sa2edflc7erl/26928928224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfc0300fa7d---rutodemutiguses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/99009804021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/jigafupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d74d4b3ee94a8c218e890978eb5a1c9/48228730749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608924df77673---1680031136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c295b8152---mokebijinitezojitoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2372802376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/46296474954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505150841554442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607225cb87509---xibazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f71681794e---tosipafarutu.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_off0000c9a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A9 10788 bytes
SHA-256: c87d55846c801ca9d7e1cf5e4efb68066bf6db98e7b73a87e5108df8fd532e4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE273 17028 bytes
SHA-256: bb3fcc6f7d8c972050e81839140318d97dbed5ad6b6df34c030c90d4067ea146
font_02_sfnt_off00010f12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1