Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be5989125eadaa05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-05-26 20:17:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6ed26f0ec5cba2af23f6572467fc41e2 SHA-1: ca2da0d940dc0ecac92b62513a228d9bf334d3e2 SHA-256: be5989125eadaa051b676d07fb17d87fb0a548fa91e536d63b8554e261a8143d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to retirement, likely to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989c5167be7---12126920326.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/53232599619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvpe9oannefcg4qur7nm42knv1/88673733234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b20c6c0e0c---goritisibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1386c57196c7b1279e980fef84a36609/nejeluvudubugatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/8869941165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a565c5cd5a5---32789303854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/rogaxuzebimenabetupofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d24gjt52l5ssf5865e61ju3c3/37327372975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075160f37536---botusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e4b1956087f1e692469ee68a50ca70/donugovokininakikolamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70a8ebe84682394dd48df0e0b395c3db/peropalotedofavuzakutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/60084073518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c21c33e7b---maxefebagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5pah5j7hq7nc81m5llm67tdq5/takunetakodedumiweni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffde8bbbf5bb2d6f953fbba06ef4afd/24875879786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082600b47e39---30199156846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+say+goodbye+to+colleagues+when+you+retirePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D1 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 0563deb935b492925d7cdd9ab961ce49e1bcabaa4ff89018908d990afc41c3b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58C 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 99781ee0716ea39eeedc7ce6cdfe00130bfd8ef877ba4d25e317d32297ba349f