Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bec47e718c760b9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:32:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1cb7d268eb2776f5b607f5fc122005de SHA-1: 30ea75b6841d3af6e36fdbcc1b0ac24efa22a296 SHA-256: bec47e718c760b9d6d798ff63fb1b1700dcdb95aff984ddb0d65edc2c0ee8a42
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as a link farm. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further malware. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139377e56d74---sifijonabugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gzcil.com/uploadfile/files/pafotemuzewexininod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/61451037858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109081918574894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210906101539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/92502860565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/bokanavegifoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13372677769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ba0cefc3b798cab86208428b339ecc/lanomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.terraton.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40725967426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investgeorgia.ge/userfiles/file/tatunuzomidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/jutowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f3d646d2a---21433093981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50701555882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobumunoretetamegapiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131aae3ae1a6---66411153781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexus-custom.com/js/upload/files/52601729801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/76417145306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/29189459525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubuzuxidetutixipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/darawijitipedazelepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/nuwaveked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/bebasejale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bunsen+burner+scientific+drawingPDF 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_off0000e70e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 10864 bytes
SHA-256: dd38311eb0741e572df43695a0f85c07672cd8ca5bcb991159a9acbfee837e91
font_02_sfnt_off0001184b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184B 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 077c03688d867bf8d9fd10301e5b08669c8753cd87fdf9edcf4be64d79ff198c