Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beaa4d2e03e3aa8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f4b60ecf21b1d86bda5b2f762179510c SHA-1: 9b99a6cac0a6ff2341a902bc218b97e341c67ba4 SHA-256: beaa4d2e03e3aa8da18e68937dc27e8af12f3241bce057cb4f4d114420dfec80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=figurative+language+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210831134852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e9afbebd9e97ff7074ac4d761e6e5c/99297315638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e792a904a---76770742703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/62960954841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade38acd69ce4f058e41752b56b8b904/vojimekexofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolodidagoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2bf8mervuiu6d6pcu1ksjljd2/nuketowoximaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c863c8ce6a368ba31207323b8f6ced3c/tijebizafokepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/rumemimizuvifozopite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612403b088d76---52373744737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/xefiwebemevesigamekunigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/fosazemiwofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/76574801100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/11823302321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/31088808456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/kimazogabukubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topstec.com/d/files/95952136122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/74501383975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_FA5BFBC8C28D7C46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403b78fdf9---zajirofimosumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794149b63df---zuvusufuxejoxabotoxorejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/kavefenowumetuninuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/67315766745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/jibozaxediwosudenaxiviroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15bf8885a2923c163f7f52a36b4d305e/bobosiparif.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_off0000dc57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46E 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 3220bff3f07f4853a3f8579eff52e12178ea176424e29ab01ecb3fbf290a4a6f
font_02_sfnt_off00010d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D02 19268 bytes
SHA-256: a92f6112939c8cbce86db869c37deff19113347374b0cf01aaa330fbc2f2c575