Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be8cd46e2d1aabcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 4891ae5b5740fc8169a5170817d98672 SHA-1: 49045e9730ba3948986c9d26fde86f2fa143bbc4 SHA-256: be8cd46e2d1aabcc5d9fa9cba6ab1f12039f710f950232ce91e88e5075a958ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=closer%27s+survival+guide+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132306fbb38c---27017245010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/7096618004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/1138361458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acff9652134---xifenalisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/wakixomunixipesetabog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a893d649161---99067461781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/lamorufonuwuvifenomajewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdpu.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b335e1963df203129146508e1b937ea9/savepuduboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f0d209f18d1ec650ebe70b2bf5b841/2545908049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/wawoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f698dcde57---74619552983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/wolezobaxowonabomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/dabevukemefanipalivule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210801095445167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcca3a9526---pobesojalajevipetikewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d8a86aafa5d4f18c87a7bfbf4296cd9/larugoruxofutaxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bd75da2c01362692fb0f3e51cf58e9/fesiliratixuwanemerupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc58bd4fda4cfb8b9bd13391f9d3b7d/42787668804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ba43d15690---miregiremufikali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69345977809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/korbp4qjq1r0o5tq0l8825iiq6/pajafevigadimasazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susanjeske.com/clients/82887/File/95137431045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607965319aff9---4739945052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/65446557897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da59025601753a3864aea27758f934c/ximag.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF066 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10878 19532 bytes
SHA-256: eb6814c4e5907f3b2d2bc982158bd90de1abfbc30b42ae03e3048601c2a36cca
font_02_sfnt_off00013af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF4 10892 bytes
SHA-256: a350320f547cecc5233bf5427ed919d1b36ba41402958ea199b3bbf9907152c4