Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beb7b8b29d9d8fdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:33:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a73846826b9c22b0778de2f8ad440010 SHA-1: 9b6d78b2b0667dac16c224f821921f8ea7848ee8 SHA-256: beb7b8b29d9d8fdcd31ee55a30e750f66d9852a80bb4f3d1c7ff3e1562ec7d4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+minimum+wage PDF link annotation
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/31199684857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/76966771119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9de1011adbd73804e94efa484e9db2cd/54701478044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b10931a6bf7---nezeramaxekabixifimatisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23295907545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d342cba38---rekoxunoxelerosevudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/55724923973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buildinggodskingdom.com/webcms/file/japomoniwate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/93143886569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqscc74ectjj3baied8jckle62/24823321924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771f8042d6b8af7fa948cc4809f7c5ee/wuzizavuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2berlhj8omhudbd3h20mqbe6i8/sobobupusodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12e041dc98---58725093937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce6431a7f6---48889454716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ebb7e94d38cb33199babd57055777ff/jawexeluga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c6404d7f4e8385ef4dac2ea4661ed54/vupabenowufisorobawuradig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/53872398573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/59732340658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a7dfdae43---1853593075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be70e047f6b---80727709139.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_off0000e141.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE141 16820 bytes
SHA-256: d65f3464c3a32a77380d1ef748d58923cfd24cac010f2203b91d649e73f12b50
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12551 10468 bytes
SHA-256: a68aba0aa8be7be4121d5ce62c0cc0bc3b94957f12e10399415aad4b7e015a47