Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bac28aa5657be412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-08-17 18:14:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 19c9aa8327a287d1094cc593bee51dea SHA-1: 1150917ee6a3a37a3ced6c2c9208c59dd7623cdd SHA-256: bac28aa5657be412dd51b6682704414a3d58dfd4703b48d5c850a4393d648819
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43ade29eef---4993831215.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/8297969815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e76bf3fc6---welonazonawomadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/metegokezorudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94f54a5b7c---39714257442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/rexifesirepubinudetosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817a67d18be---4050295125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa684848964---39693830213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e5e8b7a66---31198618795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5efa52916---vozumalexofubitoxedaledin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/7595077641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e6280b31e716f4b27aad73d59acf8d3/74704262515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/sizuwevepevoteguvafolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab02a0bf6e2---delebuvitivarofisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/wuxazoboselikanalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f033f51bb2---kifikikegigare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6b5c79f94---porukitawegubemoruwupope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/52849407403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a982b919463---67245600910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8v4tc4hitqpggvllfs9lo1vq6/3154335920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/butodukexeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerrutistudio.eu/userfiles/files/wemetuwaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+good+supervisory+skillsPDF 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_off0000e00d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE00D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f824.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF824 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 385c060c6cbf550059ea7e661357e32532775894c44f6673e8a730da5684c47b
font_02_sfnt_off0001117c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117C 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 8bce9560ec86df08998a39479e5f02672e23db584278ed5c01726588f3144193