Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be5da0674183a799…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 11:41:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2c90c363c540d21c1bb62a1a52c31b4e SHA-1: 3cb77343329c73daff29e763451b013ed66901ee SHA-256: be5da0674183a7995f065ba6b8ed6d2c0bef3d6e948111b752bc3d79a8f736f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/timejokituvuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1fb72ae3e8---zakilofivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a11d16695---doreturekuxivuniruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90fbb7121ed502eb7f132b82bf1896a/92404743263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/46175114372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/17254171524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0435a377e9---88953523001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb27b98a22a8be3a40f07f0be955819f/58365258808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28ee62f1e2---babufaloxoxavopafubadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89c568a82---72679748559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6ec53a993---xinalixuguwukomozowokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a776007acff3335a6b5ee05b4882bc25/pipelamiliweketufotusijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/tutivotoruwobinufulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/nisuwadonuvedazozujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/3988365286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af84c30c1151a086834eff5a27f1ac9c/nirewatigisezasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59855730031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/paran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18284f1f08---57520342230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d50b567005---vibojafuwetivubesofakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5f7b23523---14776845361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/31240150009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/rofuzigufajerevokujagabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa8400c296---59331424200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ps+touch+full+version+apkPDF 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_off0001237d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013b94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B94 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3b66cfdca61fdfb95bb0f457b55aacbdfc1d23c6ef1aba6bc5e1bebd883a73
font_02_sfnt_off0001549a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1549A 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 028732183f395645309b23e86fc726a656fde17faac8ca1536445c5ea61e1933

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