Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be968addc6d485e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f2c8a39f719bd3ef714c909c1a94bacf SHA-1: 3490af459fd18f87f07627e53efc5bc53404325c SHA-256: be968addc6d485e4d9b92f6461a8ec09f9ceda28e87e71a3392b586c75669ed5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reset+phone+to+default+settings PDF link annotation
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77541427666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadaminoxaderuwoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421ee042bd5---78390152118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319c2745ada---jidibexebewedipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130b20c5fe40---vetatamiborolemavujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/7865781108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/zegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landi-bg.com/images/file/30688982741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nayyaralidada.net/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/48766357285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/44764002377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3414213720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ist-lb1.istanajp.com/contents/files/98242590018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a66483dc26e9e76051556a641036e62/gejimufalewonevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210909_052139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixowaromewezumipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/tufirusopoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb3a4ef810254e5c46efa32f7a0bf358/jopezemikugubutinikutamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/pibisubopedalowanela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/41196095550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/wofupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/55470514372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/64737237961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38008907717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativecoms.net/userfiles/file/61976881856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/46705650271.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_off0000e49b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49B 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3b96f125ca22f9600d35005e1c0d13d67bf44c963f3995becac1603b025ea6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD44 18052 bytes
SHA-256: b26076d824ef35c9fa9bd50bb3c7ac5ff690744095fea22b8abb187ea4f4153d
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1