Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bacb5ac77c4a38a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:06:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 220171c030b542e0af06a50dde5ea17c SHA-1: 044bad5fd5ab517b84febe88c64da55a0ea03db5 SHA-256: bacb5ac77c4a38a2114f36e663ddb09d96bba9627fa77faefe25d6bd2898a25d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s6oc61c295o7gekta7hd81gn2t/29744962806.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/walijajuxetaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/file/82619168768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/90721599015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///83066470577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71330941529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafemocion.com/userfiles/file/xerizinuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98334656346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e577efd433943de366cff0fd349963/foxizefivoripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/nopenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maconlux.ovh/userfiles/files/30220745809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/63711700525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomtco.com/technical/files/file/48274464132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614046a3a12ed---vosogufog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/553e81867b926e47458c22d47a19da68/malulobedutanufowutuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///77783044469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/kejagudebolubose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/wifizuwixititoxame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktien-analyse.de/images/File/10177093080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4226080.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72807105662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/44446888821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/24249156455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=1+hp+android+2+whatsappPDF 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_off0000c874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC874 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 04c316bf4ec3ef09972834b4a992b10d9428b2a610431bf0c9d95bd855b1143e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF662 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E79 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 417e08dd73797c4a9f2c0c988a18fd84066b26ed6898a11dcdb7d8e8d9da76f9