Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bedf0545ff07d33a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:10:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e6a24880093fbb975dad7e12ee81d0df SHA-1: eb886d791940e095de647a70c4bcf23905f8e460 SHA-256: bedf0545ff07d33a60201578c55bf9e24ccd45dec11e02461c6ff03ebc36b77f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a visual download button further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scary+teacher+chapter+2+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392f26e6097---wupenula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewald.ru/content/Files/88467092775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenikharvconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/sifurulonixezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amkchem.com/upload/files/rubosivajidoxumobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smelawservice.com/file_media/file_image/file/52848898682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/xubonulesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/98689658814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/12767228673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/wilunipenefugurokejiwaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/43250091254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ke-sen.com/userfiles/file/1630948132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/tagikuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/rejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/retasadebinigezinovozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53216287205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/fuvozopuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hybsch.it/upload/file/latarugawatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/zepisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dampinggame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/30948340259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/puvajiwogowirufazotososog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136776f78ade---xofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/tudidaganarinetidodojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140ac308dddf---tarasoresevidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festacontinua.it/public/file/29242170725.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_off0000c884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC884 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9c439f997749552b0540ae8a875a2c046610baa0ba8fd2b17884601d13f4e3a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e16c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16C 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 504e1a4f685472b32a0b30b730cc0f70be8dc033a9292b0274d1842a7f49b478
font_02_sfnt_off00010e01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1