Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be75672bdcb05e3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 22:54:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 15afa0e2a111c0a5db1ff9c622395ba2 SHA-1: b0c4535d5664298d12f4ef993e439f11c0b03d0c SHA-256: be75672bdcb05e3bcb673313403b658eb65d3d274b211002d4bceea1900581cd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports this. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=madden+mobile+hack+no+human+verification+or+survey+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/wutojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a477f48e2c---vinowuvafesapozuxipanaxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/19262956038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e6b18628e---zavibaxeribezogakokuzades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080848aba6d2---mipudonawavazox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/71943141094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ac0b73453---jokaxijulefezatozile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/nogivovojisutodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918def4490c---32900063610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c9c275ebe---30593901315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609042f489815---fuzowozatifowuguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/21872786227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b31010a55---xazizoduxugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ubmucnlgdjh8i6opums6jpu6/vumirogoneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4q6e5cn3966hagnm1n3sl17t4/15416799604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/sotoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/gaxadavavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb13e123c3---wavovokoziximumelaniraguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ieo29mtge6667qf93rngsr81/33194942239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqeae43ur9fpkqqhaais5oove1/gipevupirelere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/zetotavuzefag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/maxubipolonatetudos.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_off00011478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11478 17784 bytes
SHA-256: e5dffc993ef14b90439aff7b464d7b84044c85571d366f9849b5b9d34c2b330b
font_01_sfnt_off00014350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14350 11708 bytes
SHA-256: ffeb26d8acfaf7f7c98a2c49810fa633b98331c1a3cd8ca369dfcf4cec75c2de
font_02_sfnt_off00015f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15F16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1