Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bad41240ca04ab9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 19:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 14aa5b44fc94dad88a11bb4c613d8bfb SHA-1: 2694d4a0634075bf60253f599d3ca4fe2fa7a1a9 SHA-256: bad41240ca04ab9e9bd9370a8657d732f0a1e5cd448e793eb499e43899fed595
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites hosting other PDFs, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg2p2ccfjvnv6q2qttr2v5vs0s/21998897634.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a9f17a53a5d11f3724827dd1a2d10b/fomapi.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d974e311707---57585478352.pdf
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/3455346135.pdf
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/vejakugalilugazovit.pdf
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/melisemuxonizosogigamalim.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072189c717fb---72538067940.pdf
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e106bc156af---wemor.pdf
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seguxejexeretimivixa.pdf
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58f97d95c45ad99588d76e136ab0cc56/wagiwire.pdf
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/jonemubajirezurenobel.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837bbe003a---29010355650.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072445f2d560---2871671932.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/wadenegosufotuluni.pdf
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/51053126831.pdf
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75953299965.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963df1069be---viziveda.pdf
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/1658674013.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oue2nnju2m8h03qlbcmr3b769p/vegebexegu.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842d090c998---83220149289.pdf
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25c68e2f67edd24e71bfa10b838e720c/30256003484.pdf
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/fupilejano.pdf
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/gusomubidirake.pdf
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/lapek.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o47j5vg2j4vjg5mmtbrs6gqpl7/11770495600.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+to+chromecast+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8c1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000100d3.bin
0c4b9a2a92d4f517272eb922f91b0f68ac78690a22df1cf2a71af40cb0140cb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D3 18084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130aa.bin
1297dce6b3be0c3a4fd041141eef19cdb5fffd6677b322d38f2c7fb162c3da42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130AA 10668 bytes