Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beedef52c9d35a07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bcd4eeb8b5782f59f0f0e8b76c5b90fe SHA-1: 81de6bdce5f0d6ec8d0f246ad960063a62dc1152 SHA-256: beedef52c9d35a074c1a1bc2aa187e839f2164e769980e41cac4243b0f24b4d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of `utm_term` parameters in some URLs suggests a phishing or spam campaign aimed at driving traffic to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+the+child+cursed PDF link annotation
    • https://chungcungoaigiao.net/uploads/files/povatuxebasovepigejaraxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a1fb9ef5ee71d141ccedf47b30e44e/31652752117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d063c8c4c75---10044858080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/kenulavotenexebevegaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aeeae62024---zewubewolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6203c3130b---62704399875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df68fo5bsbhhmr4qs7d0m3tnp5/81753107966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e31b491c62---78789538508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/29960670870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mctqenr2hpcjm8ovqid1pj2pk2/36286118884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/21420370407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03e599f8b3---75449531431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/080e35b0qu08ro3acvnqnc5cbd/kavuwagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1375ca4b38894c196a933658cfda0e31/wevisujeboxetegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/80784213880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/75991024293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d91838a1e48---babezukavodofikegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/miwemutobalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608468d9dd1b7---lafofasiboduxarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/48921985488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/xepemevopasejesizobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqnj0reb2binluo8dokp0386g0/96427617890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5aa213a2d0---32813511129.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_off0000f605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF605 10712 bytes
SHA-256: ec55c96390ebf9dc7362fb5ba556629d4796ff6c3bb942e7b62efb70ddcf119f
font_01_sfnt_off00010eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EB9 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9ab55b98a98f0786fa1bcd36f9971957cdfbfe6adbea8f47adaf8e356af436
font_02_sfnt_off00013d06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1