Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bece7de9b3472399…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-10-03 03:02:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: bd6a8bf5b684292ae4998a7494b5b72d SHA-1: 469bf246392369dbacf830a0d278004a1e81979a SHA-256: bece7de9b3472399200de9cd0106f84db3ef20acd076dc0b590ef7aa163d02cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure due to its image-heavy nature and embedded clickable links. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised domains and disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content or to phish for credentials. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an intent to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=horizontal+curves+surveying+problems PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615447865a140---98422601581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkxhjfc.ltd/uploads/files/20210923205506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e131ecc2e09df79274969a4a2075291d/viluzidofosudejuworegudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/wizirajojofexuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/xobizibonitove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gregoryshow.ru/files/file/10965751614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/14370910655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieseam.org/userfiles/files/rinetosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/dazobopitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32537856110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/xodelasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomax.shop/filespath/files/20210902083204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketnoikienthuc.com/upload/files/86420138324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alwillislifecenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40438729431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yensaovinastar.com/media/files/5036352608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/lapevisoxususefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatherjansch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29002486526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73293999924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festacreativita.org/userfiles/file/jurimufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cc7909845---7151149088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://komunalno.vrgorac.hr/files/noliwifafizosamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trvstore.com/userfiles/file/56651410070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents/files/25302803087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/moxafozesexojijinupivisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/godamawadurejejajizefuvi.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_off0000afec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFEC 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 742198b6f81838f2ec00acc5e26f0544acb69fd16b9a1736238762d07b233903
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE204 14224 bytes
SHA-256: b763c144ce441a810719f0c42c26e047a8b5e9bdcdcb50ba580b48646c9e24db

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