Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bef394940e10318e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 08:11:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 44f1596b7e4e8111471de02a43c8d881 SHA-1: db8472d70eeed8abaec05fb31cbe2d13f7a0d197 SHA-256: bef394940e10318ece53e79b1369b125e7275260a9c5103544a7a1ffa6e682ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous URLs on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d91e5e7c96---bunixevixijuxofulinoradol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://highspiritsmusic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixesetiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///vemokadovebixowavidewatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/80957584154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d671d019197cf4170e0f137face095b/90971955465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aba08fe3352404c4747f68f96bf7f02/koridugopopozizolivelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qinrt36mbuunksi7kueqj64v53/pifolexobelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081621d80dde---bovujutivorekevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/90320878917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao0afo9g40sdvjbpv2u4rqaku7/lekukapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae63ec94875824ad912a61a719438e2/vupezogewetapevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnsqc0pbfao75dp3p2ple3a60n/saxuxesapagoxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ba5acf5db---kifalopuvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/20303193650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749310bd05e---72093772466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609840c5183aa---85645969872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddad200444f---97792814505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719b6014956---28816269110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd6ae5909---tuzikufogolazurax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c64317ee61b8a0baac383580b4a675d/16182750168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a5014c195---fugenodugidamudegere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/63362918083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad9fdbecc4---tejabakipujevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210523163144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/lugebevesozadikuluvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/disokapulakiposag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4svancouver.com/clients/c/c8/c8601140a4283eb9b700f388a83987a3/File/jikuzoridadigadubev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fom51623aeadn4r45mbn26rbfj/gufaxabelugugozutejanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tar+and+featherPDF 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://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_off0000fac4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D6 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 6410ff4a1b69adbcd1768a687c2c66be5a97a98657b47bd5dba382c9e004d800
font_02_sfnt_off00014218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14218 9988 bytes
SHA-256: 4de6a71692aa55cda0578b1034be51e66c642aa2eb5a8941303e36a0224f8fd3