Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bed94ff3b360753f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 17:00:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7413f380d2df31410ea99354307a2624 SHA-1: 64d8e7289713eda1521b9a94f0e83e1fe4d9edf4 SHA-256: bed94ff3b360753f078baa6b542d31117ebf54cbe57f970741da7e8f75d973a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baixar+livro+casamento+blindado+2.0+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://naucharts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7843219515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd26317566---80980242813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8586f74f07ecb7a6579fd2daf1ee6926/76343018627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srub-servis.ru/userfiles/file/xafelekavanixugup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/posavalavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57013282287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/gilegoratagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf2br0c1daduev1gjd3bqkca47/45795405844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/voxawajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/kibusoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca6d6755f731d4fb3e24e623b5ca1e9/labipiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/40640202444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a567b705dda---70289107300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de7d3bea45ab198569ca1e30df7ca71b/21721768579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/paxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea65906c49---17418005647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/46356892251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/84657911757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087990f0f5b3---wuwadujelaguxutosarojewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ce99c9274---76425206308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/62157567475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210609113203.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_off0000e23b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA52 11448 bytes
SHA-256: 7b0af44d47927802a50c5914eca3a102610833d97371a2ba0f1770858a593fed
font_02_sfnt_off0001153f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1153F 19748 bytes
SHA-256: c1dbac24a7b435ac63cd4240f2a7463d3cdcfa6e55210d6f9325019c557c6470