Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6a80295ad92cec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-08-18 21:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1092869bd83e630d9ffcfaa795f2c736 SHA-1: df1957f36f31a81ecdf633c0e8209daa87fb22e8 SHA-256: be6a80295ad92cec75b9b2eeeb6ddca8cb58759bf629500f934c3296e139fbfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+pair+phonak+hearing+aids+to+laptop PDF link annotation
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d656cf24a993f181fd66484b5bd5f9f9/71527284553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn9fld1ug834a59ibqmnume792/52564738437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/91779402096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b571343002---nuxipisoxoxagomeponulute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93173599097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2f79714e1---lakomilosawin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc4d10618f0cf975ac0c4369ffed1994/xitivatis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/91613163670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f9ba7a34---41615570154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/kejazefaneramupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed18c35ac5snnsc25to1df6us/29194734524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71685985859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021051312200870554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774f8212926---46278939462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f22ca6e41---dajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents//files/dikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacmacbook.net/userfiles/file/remorerozupuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a85ba9mdq6t8sonqlgfibjoeuq/84351361309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/mibimejibesuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce333561ef---mujugezimadumubegot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cu69p73tvfj60q0c419nu5shuf/dexolasimokanekisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e2546e7d8d---58162342491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handsonmontessoripk.com/userfiles/files/dibujupejitofewutadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f20676d5f43---luxele.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_off0000eb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10368 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 9216c60124697e8bac31a4d2d1b4d84ae5d181a58206eb2cf81bf561167ae466
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2D 16704 bytes
SHA-256: 98ec5cdbc30ca6cc379f9f77ad97bc6e339ba2fb0e4acbe947cfabda07f3d3d7