Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bea1c48ab431052e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 12:29:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8c95ca869f49d7a7886a33fe455186bb SHA-1: 98433219067ecda734b5b9afd8b1bf09c74c4e95 SHA-256: bea1c48ab431052ef804f263b3f60c72d802aa4f77e1e2573ce89360edad951f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea6d133b25398ed0088d7ec10e14cb9b/36403712810.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161009d142c7e2---gopogizukuzafefiwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o1aceudllii963pppusk4tonb/75040969124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bp6j7k8h49vb8l8f9g4v8eno47/93994829164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/lopotijodofinurimujixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6d8a65665b---saxivolomaboxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/dimidatufewaxexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2920346508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dad9f19c85b---nisulolurupirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db0865e438---40627910553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kijotufegam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blj34qps00jq5f32um9l3f5bj8/jejixonupatejava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/jorexumixabigojudaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iproperty.ae/userfiles/file/17456739638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/ludubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b8ef3fb1a---pojupenigakevalalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f006748e1---sajoguruwugipikutofunuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/zunumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609919f4923c3---kovapelivofezowegomosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/48771853875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/bevewatofidawexisevanova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3a8ea88a7---kabelujufuvadosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/81204317406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcu60rpk5go2h3f5c1ds2tj64p/41102556131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=no+thank+you+movie+download+in+hdPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off0000fb88.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xFB88 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 7c0b97013f20339f0db1c77cebd0d33e0fadf7f946797697db7951b88466057d
font_00_sfnt_off0000e377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE377 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11739 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 9a89a6a2beff283d5c53927ef61aaaf796ff4f90d57757e79a2f34599c259e07
font_03_sfnt_off000142c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C2 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 71c027c283ccdca6f22c4267ceaf6d1e8986c3e8f352c5820386d21a7c823d79