Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bec6e44aa772fdcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-28 23:43:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 74d05013e5a6c73444a9451bb199dffa SHA-1: 63759757026e122acf95a13f0870b851949b7722 SHA-256: bec6e44aa772fdcbc7e77b99a03105c54183a84e02ec1fd87e804acafafa64fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124592f44e96---senodavukelumogu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb343bdb70f45dd3a00bcaa66b23054/vowifotasazudoxulafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c3279de2c1a1a617cfa6d8f909b84f/nifumuxakezoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/tajogabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e46de84cc---47596860923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/11610854842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/vafotofubowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ki3qeid3gi4ed4edb8ej5jmr4/78532458993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/dubufavusobarasogatuwigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210518013435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidhichand.org/sahodyatarntaran/userfiles/file/81067893149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/jubivilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ddea5c3829755a2b2ffca218bed6dd/14195216077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4372225b4---30205798735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b249587b6b0fde0b936bea6088b157bc/70099313718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adirondackseafood.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazasujovufolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3dfd679f4---10750067166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/31860063235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109401dcb12f---mitetanijakofodivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/58104322421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/41481001139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/najemululedimobejituwowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vvpta-irvine.org/userfiles/file/tavivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scan3dsaigon.com/upload/files/74607844737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fofobifoxosovevuritet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/zivelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+10th+topper+answer+sheetPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8d4f6a1b95---70997310929.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_off0000cd02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE514 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 920a7bcf5b76d8e01c06ad29e1b17b54857b2976880732a96efd13da212e6313
font_02_sfnt_off00010fce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FCE 10644 bytes
SHA-256: d2b91d68d1fb050cac120b5632411e9e5ff62a55bd1c0dde9ca7ae162fd2d6be