Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be71ae8e9470baa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:36:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 61b4fb855ae4cbbb7cf63426585c504d SHA-1: c1c493bdd59b6db02d5a3280e8de0f3f5c23398a SHA-256: be71ae8e9470baa97eed70b1c6c71710d3b17f49e6c75adbd10f651eb6e904c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous PDF link farm indicators suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/37667014038.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c29f6c325e2b9214f8c852ebafd3e1/44052801208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b28ca143dfd1e785941c3f920acecc0/55213748332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/dubesijolamufoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5c493a52e---juvefirukotode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cf0387269---60529139929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arredamentoambienti.it/img/file/gidekuvokadegelesedubine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/70381089449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5388735653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03lb58spb3vh23t55or46pcjgg/79468106485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b92f882978---kowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2eba454e1d276edfde0aa3852077892/71539140864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d25d18a56e---gomaguwuwesipetaxabapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454075c5f55962b47835be2c2031c7ea/81453940826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/77099799359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/65324562556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca27f04e304---kebekepivisasuzobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8b8a4d1e1---lekibuzijiduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf6be52435---9215005447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eed7hdon3f0vnhpn601nbe950m/42828340017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/kivotetudejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949e48ecca2---63129157035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/38127121093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=second+ebola+outbreakPDF 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_off000138b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B9 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 4b522a42963c416c62676869234c4200ab73c44bf2a951c6620bd4711496cc10
font_01_sfnt_off000150ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150CE 19156 bytes
SHA-256: 03b67d896bb60bc076a21e015f2a3200ec6f2b795a8bc0c35fd3d9d39258bf1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001817c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1817C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1