Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bee8c46718c81785…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 15:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8126ea28ae675a48b40f24ff7a32f0d5 SHA-1: 762e7db04711f5df6ede228cc4ac615fd0dabfc2 SHA-256: bee8c46718c81785114ab972cbddc99a1df66b6be59a822c79cc8c971c572280
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to external, potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to distribute other malicious files, likely as part of a phishing or malware campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=screen+auto+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/09/file/202109032307036472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soswzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/97621413123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/67676395853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lelexaxigizidegenuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/doxelokozigozaxojado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021092022501291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafmoni2biho.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48322509158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/22271667940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/garituro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inoxquochoang.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/30171305370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57958100806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d75b1c38ef---2072689163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/97868017484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/sazaxofuxusomosovabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo819aqqfa8fd06fd9p3jvrkid/kuwumuzenefegakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automyjka.pl/automyjka.pl/userfiles/file/xodosila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/rufugepejosifegidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mujutavevitaweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martan.es/cenavarra_userfiles/files/90332375244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/43293710293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/giledovivonawebimemedaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ada4bc1a00---20532374628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnam-pump.com/userfiles/file/37852989451.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_off0000b723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF35 18372 bytes
SHA-256: 13f927488c7d83878c7181a5e0ffc3febfac98f782766beea414cf865fede522
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD4 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 5869f83c7a96c83d29625014ae12a9d5c7dc03f21b08354d22ab97afaddf1450