Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be7ef210bdcbbc90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:06:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: da65904d42a22eb0d170dcc862191228 SHA-1: 66fc4ef556981c1827e92898426b7f607dd7756e SHA-256: be7ef210bdcbbc90bf3081ecdf6b6be5e580608db4e2c5244f098430f2c2d5fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The presence of 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics strongly suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b43c04c7c3a8ff4b1ed86dbdccbb0b/83249355173.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/57210000387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b21cd67669acb8ee13cbf0bac868075d/ginozipabilevovejanugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896c1a69441---lodinejari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708b5b5f8ad---21112101202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0fc32e5c9845004228ff235503946f7/97386924721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d086856bc41233b2494e01c9d4dcf6d/mapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce9a1c0d985---fufofapikozizujuxifemobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robuzinaledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/930ce92c3e42e64b498b8035c5eaf1f6/46745544923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/61975050207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/dukawibavifaroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607190f566709---disogavojezaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/xopazepukubavudasem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8bd3ab002---31162913517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapafedada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93483d7847dce11abf16ecddd1c5368/63874536412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/63315887642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/paxevifamatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2f6c27eaa5df98f8e7aaa4f9dade10/dekogowelinoxajupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee52cd926d9d8d094701425f606f871f/xokuduretorakokimubatizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml59tcqbgq117pev73351a2eh1/8925195149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=14+august+songs+mp3+downloadPDF 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_off0000f3a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC0 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 07ca01d0eeb2fe6801c446022e948bcd92ef5ca7735cfa9707f3598ba2b913fb
font_02_sfnt_off0001248b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248B 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 16defe116230d4b320283d0349af67e3e9d8041303b45c50d0d74fd777c18074