Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be960dc2c3b74df6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 62657b36c6b9e8166136a1e12d0b7e27 SHA-1: 336ff30926e3b1c4c1898b85210784ae2cd3bd3e SHA-256: be960dc2c3b74df673f46d9257e2554db9d0df5007267fb514cf08d2b1557d57
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and an ML classifier flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d259f65ad2b593fb47579686ac2998a/gitobodozepuzodoviwigu.pdf
    • https://imagebrandstudio.com/userfiles/file/41113383222.pdf
    • https://www.groupe-coelho.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garosi.pdf
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodilapupinuzataj.pdf
    • https://dehaventransportation.com/home/de/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dewag.pdf
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/42364225810.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/norusugox.pdf
    • https://alansglobalservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoripodasebe.pdf
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/jofemobogen.pdf
    • https://kingwaterpure.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesixosatupajulifivib.pdf
    • https://faktxeber.ru/resimler/files/44252313664.pdf
    • https://dispecom.com/cms_dispecom/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/79712787350.pdf
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/86694343286.pdf
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/60708817300.pdf
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/163140901215304847343.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161480b5ccb230---42359235355.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161495a459caaa---zupudo.pdf
    • https://96662888.com/editor_upload/file/33853613744.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19eram22tl3e6lrjjdbhe43r4a/fopuxujatewug.pdf
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090322130921.pdf
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosagodafibixizekoj.pdf
    • https://oreopay58.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92408348253.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93147aa7b5a7573ce88c52fd213277ee/lujux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=putting+android+sim+card+in+iphone
    • 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_off0000b192.bin
6d4e5a80a1cdd0de09db9cedfea18b63eb72ad00cdc98650ee314de801599de5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB192 11016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cacf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2e1.bin
ff34b7d3c253dd7c6705ca8817e683d2329e1193bb31e478d52e4c1f640582c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E1 18516 bytes