Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beaee3da0a5198c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:47:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 00d385a8981d472b8abfe3bda64b8799 SHA-1: 22aae2d1c0d3e7f485ce881850e62a43f6c59561 SHA-256: beaee3da0a5198c8ab67202cab36ec9b9f1c2dbd6f981c425f67a6f78c0001e5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns suggest the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gmat+book+2018+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/xevevixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents//files/94947773696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edubox.mn/uploads/users/0/files/94393870907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efe85429b0---pafekusesidukavebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/rujogepexixetox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3977634d23d5cf4b0de29cc47cf5e8af/29161954762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65241600784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ef0ee26809---35628015788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnrpkv3qq4ssa1ntvpqvgem4er/2225748776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/6524755649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01b660a97e7c40740a2382612a71288/33841469190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210601064519_1779253006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ff41d215b28470cc86898526c65183/zivofovabufepejojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e47q3647lae2k50j4b2ltsv20/29190691096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumaxetuxipituxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db4183c17e---44447802257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c7c7ca999246c13450dfc5ba671b1e/zaxizanijaworudakabade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/2608802811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/sisumudewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/rewusodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/767c47f596e337eee4f4457d98cfd62b/46173847251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e5d410ae6---76543253766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ormansagszive.hu/upload/file/27164047978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23634fe58d57539423bfc811a5e9ded7/51877081133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/3334200964.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_off000120bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120BB 11256 bytes
SHA-256: eeec33f32040a48b3b1903ba9542f92692986154fde0cecbd852e1185e1aca7d
font_01_sfnt_off00013b19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001532b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1532B 19820 bytes
SHA-256: b80c0f7e2bd875f8d03691b4415bc7ce6d2f8dc55c36303cb6f12c9787ef97b2