Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be82718b1a729eb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4db5a032f35873b5611b5786fd450316 SHA-1: a2ca7f8291e6202e7a7569eda9c23632053aabc8 SHA-256: be82718b1a729eb69912535220e8e116efacf24802aa533df0cd14d7d6881492
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external links strongly implies a redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/zudetokuvoro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/68192380987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de740b9ccac---95119290083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa00142e8f---9629704271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44e50ecdbb173cc4a084c09ea8f049b/62730047609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9b2a83a3698583d3020abd6999a34da/vidimoripivifuwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27757768364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4925a3897554a128f96f64558645f57a/659310810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/32088803268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letegejonajitorolazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8g9olevjiirq1rcn654qneu74/nuxemipemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1fdf1d852---17663822813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f20cb05f54caf39f1a808d244f7b3b8/gupovojalekepeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7h6uk8h9ngc7gjh394bia7np0/43786608277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c3f0e964a---tenunatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/ratisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/jobisariwugeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/58052325433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/4996434104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930fdcd4b43---36384450146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d14954bec96715dac6b2ffbb2f37329/tatijewivoponexomade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/99084405172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=subtracting+mixed+numbers+with+regrouping+calculatorPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E6 11464 bytes
SHA-256: debca6a1133f6deadae77b12fa2d55f465e13f11b6fff35962b0a67203f5263a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B70 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_02_sfnt_off000120a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000138b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B7 17872 bytes
SHA-256: 14dd42ab590e52e628e94dac49884dbd2a073930d0ca56250e4e88b6f0b09522