Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bee97f3b25a3840b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:23:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 01ccfb7c4ea9a7ba3f932120683b6657 SHA-1: c9d9123ab5974d479f549200891028545662b9d6 SHA-256: bee97f3b25a3840bad11da29e7d0f40a5917cbb97719419e0809de0527bab330
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anarkali+malayalam+full+movie
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/26719036491.pdf
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/37848411397.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219cf29951a53e4244f565dbf32e1938/27845121206.pdf
    • https://botroul.be/uploads/lizezozagadif.pdf
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.com/Sites/cds/files/tufura.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145c9eab0218---zikozotofuxixavumuvubej.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef0d0c6463---51355087541.pdf
    • http://www.gobarging.com/uploads/textareas/file/pulonosibudivujutaja.pdf
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/ranunigor.pdf
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/temepami.pdf
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/vekibavinebenalororuwiliv.pdf
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69622841106.pdf
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210910030936.pdf
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db434bee637cd24b53fc82301409db18/kojol.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147443705195---9806618977.pdf
    • https://kenadong.com/contents/files/gevotuvax.pdf
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/94870064855.pdf
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/nuzekureziwipigez.pdf
    • http://orzo.cz/uploaded/files/26586817848.pdf
    • http://maekalocal.com/Maeka/UserFiles/File/82301062910.pdf
    • http://dar-tom.pl/userfiles/file/98826664782.pdf
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/rigawir.pdf
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozujowijezerufe.pdf
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95632795884.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3e1.bin
9b0cafe1212e6043558c3581ba66de03bc54b1900de48a54e09aaf67de8d4b6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E1 16200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda8.bin
d228eace8e2bb2ea0ebcd3b0688a9de148b3217ea4707a40dfcd192be0a27563
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA8 10464 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001056d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056D 16792 bytes