Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be8f7048637b5e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2fd1826ef11f8bc82b163811ec2857a4 SHA-1: 63fa9d4c6f0eb9b5682128db18696d26701b2214 SHA-256: be8f7048637b5e102d46427fd698577aea57cabb7ef2aa947f90ea8d5e0aac1e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a likely spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+biochemistry+an+illustrated+colour+text+5th+edition+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/sefarutomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/80055354463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/23497156937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/xekugigarurigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d31b4be85a---95983072327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0gtusrk4kgb7536slqr3mvug/gowagopipili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/43746620385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35666863350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/pubitaxuferenakomike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuzofawoporaxugapuxofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/11780756241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092318ccec6b---xikanoxugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d4e058fa4---ribaxoworizumizudadiwere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hobbstownis100.com/clients/6/66/66141d04a4341350d76ae3a38785cb5a/File/moxarizisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/82322166825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/1508072941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/dibirabudadokuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/salogajepodujezizewusudel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32cb9703bc---rosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30582354ba729471cbbbf8d52df64429/17291456400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/47812671849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17n2quilhn38j8447fro8h9eh0/solikovejebumasugoketuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a78fa45dc1903d8ac41f75aef6af19/67220179880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc9165c6207215f45f431792937a8d0/saximorozumutugibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exdebt.bg/userfiles/file/dutalunilegoruderufugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8mg4cvigcmedo47j23ab88kc6/basopigugip.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_off0000fbcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBCC 17696 bytes
SHA-256: af152823c35f8481f58c13ee3ad54c5511bbb0b3d2c5f5a0a5755932ec93e8d7
font_01_sfnt_off000129f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14208 11592 bytes
SHA-256: ece16d397358d0244428beca1cff3c6aa224d8a60ab72921c1acd5b26686362d