Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be7d12612dcb6fc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 03:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ea9276743262e36952afad230295be74 SHA-1: 6c703615f44e9c9288aef382f467789983906050 SHA-256: be7d12612dcb6fc4f652c85d84db76460a5dbea78a3f9852a4ffa9c6e806d3f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to PDF generation, indicating it's likely a crafted lure rather than legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=al+arabiyyah+bayna+yadayk+new+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a217bd37403105503bcdf3023221d0/xiroxuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/buzexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ee2b06081---zazuriselipilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d557035519a893c34c9466112216246/40538383138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b24d88962aed19ca863c8c4bfff372cf/48865871275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c6f75cad731dc788aa7eed3b0ac9a3/warejojunolukasudexowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/90522411635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/winutowuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607190f566709---disogavojezaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pkvn2m94uomvjr89f14pkid56/vigelavejukemuposuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c9e27a525---62390117205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d44dbf93912026e40d76b27adecfa90/fuvevubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea97394690---40124503204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072beac462b3---wenedivajosugajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d927ef3959---dedakupanezemivukopetuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2045168c9c2f0ab4ef13f67d0b83560c/62613492613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e719.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE719 5124 bytes
SHA-256: d9bfa5a74c34007080a87ec4db48d920acbee844753b4f490e0b005d6c49b56e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF886 10684 bytes
SHA-256: ef4cb48a9692b0d78f5296781b7b7fc60942f95df794eb2f8efe6e96499b390b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D74 17664 bytes
SHA-256: c6e2a59712d45920601e7968c19729d45ac8e6b038be709d18d4924edd989c30
font_03_sfnt_off000137da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137DA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71