Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6698c081e5e319…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 01cf61e2ab1bef35d014ce53a64c01e2 SHA-1: 3b8ee9be18abe225aeed67b73244791a2624af1f SHA-256: be6698c081e5e319fbb45cf7824b7b1444a5dd91d7793a5d4c62631bfbd13002
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14483531070.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614537e218f34---lobejuzefilerupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bd42dd9a9---wajisoliveretixedubemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgelc.com/userfiles/file/20210901110307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/70603584368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/legirutewabalafemetiwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btsoft.vn/uploads/files/95583872343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harissarantis.com/userfiles/files/36277020851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340f9f0b2f3---gokubabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33760403194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/70018913334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/wuwulazafiwonamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/43965130463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613043286d2cf---2295509555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c2e30ef7a---xarud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/89495657483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/dadoravowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistaone.co/userfiles/files/99241468334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/94220487365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/76717910102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109062143006112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c5c4603633434869597ecab072a20c9/29573426882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/59515948479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/6692095310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=rihanna+diamonds+mp4+free+download+mp3PDF 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_off0000e518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE518 17720 bytes
SHA-256: e28c7b6cad3712b5bd2cbb93792d63108db41c77324d7cbe0d8a48428c3c0452
font_01_sfnt_off000112fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112FC 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 52ecbec38e5b17bde8e70cbb371bd3a450484384ac03a5a9249e522f40fb6062
font_02_sfnt_off00012c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1