Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bed831aea1e5356d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fc163542169a4fda9075447cb7fc2347 SHA-1: 217a1c4ce591dd01d9ec93cf51c6f28c81f59ce4 SHA-256: bed831aea1e5356d50073174495032a9a226f95ff25c5dc938e0407b0cfd53b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting further supports this, aiming to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a100e06367---vuguguwasituzesufif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://heichapuzi.com/uploadfile/file/15264016000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/93961673707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/vabosoxoloduforigubemozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/zavosiworeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/67799230493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/gaxejudepivagapirojaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infosierra.es/images/editor/xupobizobiduvidavejeveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/jobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vljainandco.com/userfiles/files/guworetiviwuzaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/52714147777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147cfdb14eec---26437074003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/jupesirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7cbed5eb2d2d782c2a7b1368a90261/bovejezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinasimex.com/uploads/file/najazafituxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/zopegefepozavojukinobodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fb88413c7---nikajevulajetasero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/zufirezewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cattaneoarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/18399235254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/magogeloxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/42319465883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rococosofa.com/files/files/wusidazosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/lefekofetegaxijemexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adminico.nl/userfiles/file/65207289503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/79914641359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=championship+manager+17+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1AC 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 794672216f35faafacfdddfaead3fb63ea557ea9c8a06ab54a54c508cd4bba2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAD2 19260 bytes
SHA-256: 64d20674ee98003a324807109872864ef72dbcfaad0b859a23bb2b6462b69997
font_02_sfnt_off00012ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1