Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 befd387be08fa69b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-08-08 23:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b6601336e02b9e2a02c82bc697dbde6f SHA-1: a1ebe140020711037a0223b395d0de09c0c4136a SHA-256: befd387be08fa69bf8fd64381e908e879c53e1762ce97b4329330ca99a168ff0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/wavigowozepofa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a1e8e7f41---38764216031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djlvdju7aokqdfrs3okfj41i80/rivafurenebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/90818617951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/88625475309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96604070c---wejegovinibebew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed186bde00---tizijisoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/xumizopubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1f527a2c6f---54193633129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i541oqshih39iqfm191dp93vqc/kamulugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/71802295103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff97d887cad4b0d0d94f27663b9c7f90/48404287934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870669a0ab1---likuwiginedumopagemagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73875516083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0r4rhibt01j4ugfjlisoo5d25/wazumamomizoganalofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betesebizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfbffe7ea0---97667557956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2633ebc55f5e557f6752da6b4868afa3/sijokurumorenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609822a4a59a1---55073737218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/90814504622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/85469667241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38ae0e247dbb190ce400896b20eb7ddc/tabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade5621163b---vametilimunapal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/elezegasaxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=isis+sin+velo+tomo+iii+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A6 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1E 17900 bytes
SHA-256: f183eef0427e613976c266ccf979eac8913d89e880ad95f43c3a7f84ef9df0cc
font_03_sfnt_off000126ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126EE 10412 bytes
SHA-256: dc7328b5631193a6965d0e7a61bfa33f06d90fd06c981d74d8f0b337eef38a72