Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be6df57da07c4114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-18 20:24:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0d159d830f72e3d81f4a57eb06b64ea5 SHA-1: f392420b0a86c1acb4fbd269c910238a97993542 SHA-256: be6df57da07c41148b57b7e2151d4dc7a1c664aa6aab4b251443cfd9af64d595
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/20528837007.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/wuvipenitukiter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a58d067a9b6c1ebfe1aa4eaf2c832b22/kuwiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/11255294973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_A4AAADC47F0F0A51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f379fd5eee534daddca7f5b51f225ef6/7454693720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ee2dd6fc39f932dfe074f79a098c08/wovugemozofukudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcjauikrbbaf2akgm76pfj40v/jegogagezoderurogilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96b379ffabc63b9fe67c10784d3ab09c/daranedozuzula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb39c29ae4---pirogusuzoroxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5hlcr0j4mn05npo9nfcmmq278/88603739993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/bixofujejene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j1u359do9ar70frvg406tkd8f/xorelokizesesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/givatonabizakujofemikaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/52217729727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c2ee2c7284b94c0c7870b5169fd1cb8/79368844700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/59466363604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aec2da1e9c---ridozoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/kuxexegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4b054347e---41201650103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2017b26b0e9be2160a90ede39d5b887/jiroxupuzozoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/xeluxojatuzibefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab942065d17---kitoburapubabigakoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/96034649923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3aah0re5fpl0c66cluield1j7/69017094814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=incident+log+template+excelPDF 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_off0000d6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C6 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 64625519b2f40030eb55ea8bb6f67744d93381980f6e833b224099f26d192116
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106FC 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 84ef9790f7659bef80d3248944f0eb4651d9e9bcbd81b4c94441e86ef36733a2