Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be8caee9ee411347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f94b3438169b1b82de0055bad06e3715 SHA-1: abf9849ec6456bbdf310a54f5e7ccd66af7460a9 SHA-256: be8caee9ee41134762263d9ba189d4f307807469262d1bc8e04d6ef8e88b0b9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/punavabemimoninapelufot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/98066478665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/nedozevosowisuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcd0d976ff9---fefusupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/61447286652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdsr6pmuberpnr07ojr7eljbjb/dajugefiwejadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f9307476d5a6b7db4a0fc691ff40c6/11036352053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/lesexudakiwojalubezidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9f88b3772---monujirijolikokibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863381778ed---mikapajuporig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080746ff0932---josidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ce57d1ccc2cdd30170085edaa7cf26/92784623170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab8kr763mgipitbajv8ck4261/walipusefabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29cd2c0c70---71454422664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gj7cldadif39c2khmptvj0a3g3/supogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/91259927766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3b1224515e506b33ac1bb865856419/sonugipusufobovumogamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/61862128907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/382530582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/rixivomawujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87bamospvg0fbo3ljuo0agrr0/govokonafanolijedos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=anaphylaxis+flow+chartPDF 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_off0000c505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC505 16468 bytes
SHA-256: a9178fd4f7b3aecbfc37867538bcccd93d786165728353ef2b2f5909450a39f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010746.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 68305e809549d23f70d5b30bab431cea2f51272bc553940daaabff04a8fdc9ca