Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1beed3296f5f2dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-06-03 23:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7404ac4a436fe41686b30c74a3fa6fe3 SHA-1: 2badfb4db2fd9f1ad476a8a8e3e6cee1a8d5eab3 SHA-256: e1beed3296f5f2dc4c24d68a8278c66249b4aa078cd4a7079ffcbf54ef832ab5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains a title related to chemical formulas, likely a lure to disguise the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+formula+for+binary+ionic+compounds PDF link annotation
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbffaacb256c3a1df8188e286904ec28/kigudewesakigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/86112823756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9e11ceca7---47603547138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7e2a76c86---kadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180c8edaf42358563fbed0f81600810f/vigekexibidemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/waxuwezedoxujaxowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1f0b1793b3655b20ce0a57af6f21aa/vogubaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccbe3cecdb61fe3d3bbfa61db494bcb/lelamifuvepusejasazakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/dufumatijifure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082475849a08---tamujijatugazuzalizami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1e6fd0b21c0d5233358af89631b482/wutile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a0b6c1715---97499707545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3649169dba---39674406645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e058540d6c---fazexabidefaruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF140 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 8b8b4def76341ce0d1e01c16276e518510e5d70f5071123990f803c51532eaee
font_01_sfnt_off000103ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103CE 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 813caa22399d56e14e74b24abb3eb795a38d8e92cadbf70402ebeb97f7e7bc6a
font_02_sfnt_off00012946.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12946 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333