Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bee52505f1581434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-20 03:34:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3195d061a600fac0459811cc68af65fd SHA-1: 71b329c01cb5010af2e3f09ec11fc595f3d03319 SHA-256: bee52505f1581434eb342b66058f285afbe3f93fd7cfac82f03e72ab71b1f578
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent, likely involving redirection to exploit kits or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tulga.ru/editor/files/tibilisuzukadirok.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e4f06d8cdb13ff11675dcf9795425fb/xurotegigaxumomufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e2606485b---25545383604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a044ca183---pubuxusuzarokosejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be2d02ea5effb2a4cabe81befbb67498/wozaladaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17d76ec52f02c1ab8e4d157ad79640db/jemerexobiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607289b850bb2---loximaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/unitoburuvikonadunezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28e3c58e14---majolapelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b13c9b484---66500939694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782910235af---83373357756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e89f5369e9525087e5e97df504a8bc/lofavujotevuvavuxizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b08b03e70---97867830431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e25d7a83---17684049073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b1cbcdfc8---talomemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499ee7b1b8972c7e6aece88477630942/dodozodurulafufevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc66eaab9455e31cf76fd45f551f35b3/80174718226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/xasije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/raxexaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=wow+classic+ret+paladin+leveling+talentsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF303 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 6aec4a623724fb6911bb7b4f2554ab7a48080871638fe6ca8dc6377bc53d2af1
font_01_sfnt_off00010596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10596 14496 bytes
SHA-256: ac8f070696fd95295f1e890076c5900b5b45745f91c6a6c434c1e2f7d2c823a8