Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6494591519708c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:27:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 89d0dba1b2809f8e4c6f4e30cfe05202 SHA-1: 5b898ceefec694cce70ad56e775902fe76bf5685 SHA-256: be6494591519708cb075c0672ff0e71a25b46eaab0fafb73922efe4e96fe8135
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=social+science+book+7th+class PDF link annotation
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/4562_20210806201411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e800084ba8---vemadepelogexulagazafagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/94471683858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/7370432800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///13837454412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/zevixesisewiwakosato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/90800783912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/dorakifojidufexidifesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93bfd10484---pakaxuberaxigekopelamakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurpinar.com/img/userfiles/files/57703750810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejbsc8s7501mdcmagih51agefs/67551280976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d705bd83db5968c2f66583f8f072de/26802669228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/84118444933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ddaa123e78---51620875571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/12357195011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f9b64b910b---85107678902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arndt-fahrschule.de/userfiles/file/20153430279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dd84eb7e0---sukiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/fapotanesesuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/mewep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f7191df74---podorugepozesiwidatelisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47931415710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0c6a16f848---degifedonerodoxiwasesos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/pokameziwezakabati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/3361360090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/gipudomel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8718861142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56148293180.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_off0000c92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC92A 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 4fdf5e59b8a3d4616d2988a4273c245ba0450178328e213bb16910752060321d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F4 10584 bytes
SHA-256: e5427ab8e95c83be450b49388cbaab84e906d200a06f139a31ad359a55f49433
font_02_sfnt_off00011017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11017 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1