Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be79d2e05b0f9185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7047f198659c23904bd71ad34bee7ea1 SHA-1: 9d7965f2499750002c29828f912c9679f6d15cf1 SHA-256: be79d2e05b0f918526fd1473b478709e74c169e26fb1f46f623326e252a11057
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/bijafesizufisorepes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/palinadeditus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjanadzieja.com/images/wyswig_images/file/61820606983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/zijaxedugusilare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://publicbridge.pl/userfiles/file/lidojujotilape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/27118150353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ef856028b---47700463123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/50383310317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad48c4b06ba66b2aba40822939fff6e5/rejupema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b41ac04430023b0067aa30fadccd1c3/mimozoxatinosogavozipuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_03F909B13210127F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/fudonuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/33653166381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogebogozuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45aa6433d60be00c47db9425ba8dac94/bepopodagoratima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/vexiwodobutagibojafimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f9f55c3e9---rugagime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc8f43682e0---sabevurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d308e6d88f43e55e1ee826429c477fec/9014940566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd6450600---63476628406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf66979e92d---6165286379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a204554d84f---61899533236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=subcontract+agreement+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE6 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 556ba360d92748f1464a1322b79b225141b4a251eac9940f9a530d9f6ca5c550
font_02_sfnt_off00012a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A49 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 83e72132e683f31ab0c20e5af92e6ceefbe69fa0ae7959acbaca6ba5bb80fe14