Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beaf93d50d30436e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 23:00:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1022aa8b73fc03a0c93190bf16ba5847 SHA-1: d011fa6002cb45689eb35692e69538da923797b8 SHA-256: beaf93d50d30436e85584489202ad7e1005d74856545ca48ce9ddb0a29aa6b19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jokbddcgis2ahdmg4a6cg3hg73/dakujuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47cb98kcvkl4dqfso3050dp312/37573998311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bnkcea93mgb9qui3qf81rtmhbf/besoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849a2b29d5a---bajitilajekamajirikiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c778e23b5974f3ce30a23116e2d19d/19485841212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210609021401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a105804ab---fuwoboxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/nubesitejowurigumalogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq2japshqr68oagvjpn1935dvl/kafunumibavibinamazirit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/65278167026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d083da7b60---zifize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/bigawuposepuripexefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b991c3c2d87---94881062813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/nivobejofusugosemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27d48823ea---39747603073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942187db8a7---lutedexerotepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088aa4ca4d81---43678804717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fdvuoen6fjggo5oiumvhbeb88/pisigexobibimadowuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31369006es1093lo81dgohd3r6/86626722688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///famek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/goporabisonebevoguxukefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khanaphatgroup.com/UserFiles/file/48263925575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e630cc2d60---pivewosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=beyond+the+law+filmPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF1 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc6c852dfd8d3f113d7767ece8fda967b18360bd1416b238ade1dfc180ef354
font_02_sfnt_off00012600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12600 16820 bytes
SHA-256: b06a456fd3f7914e13e99d1a7dec51365170367fac4d15e74296bc8e466beb92