Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be9043ff918eb576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:01:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10e4792c9bb8cabd35c8e1230e31c1a3 SHA-1: 787fdfa92bbf581b06e7cf56956aaab73bc867c1 SHA-256: be9043ff918eb5764a6b2574c474b1af52f0e3dcb8ed269248b482f28f124bb9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates these links are likely used for SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links points to an attack pattern involving redirection to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+materials+management+arnold+chapman+pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ae4aa8209---muxoxijego.pdf
    • http://banglenhospital.com/UserFiles/File/fizajibanevuturumez.pdf
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1248755e68af033b83dd4ebf95990db9/70798141844.pdf
    • http://hollywoodterrace.org/clients/863344/File/4739511024.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761c12db775---58538798985.pdf
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/51715538550.pdf
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/95778008054.pdf
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210513194627_1059622844.pdf
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfba570b6c---21594547719.pdf
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/20699587732.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0509c67ec8898784366217b82b64990d/62288647924.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0789773519---14971178781.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afc631d4e3---4819920129.pdf
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/kowotapasidenatikobem.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dafa1cc5e34233d8e7951a92eb20822f/44717673632.pdf
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21362634674.pdf
    • http://championsview.net/userimages/1483598901.pdf
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/vumukobiwulewu.pdf
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/sujoremiwopuvawoveditaf.pdf
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/74574562233.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705ab713b94---ginixewuki.pdf
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf99059629---zuzesopobuzijubik.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e531.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE531 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd48.bin
7fe4fda19b0319e16af3191a347b1ebb3541d63767be61bf8b06e4026199449a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD48 11120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000116ca.bin
319954b4a69cbd9ea9c8029039c504567bb97b8e2e1311afe3f5aae4d18fba14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116CA 17880 bytes