Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bad57bbd9eed202b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:13:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 231a632374b61a21b57c2e66360a564a SHA-1: b7db076aa68f472521da78cf2d6e893e0490b5a8 SHA-256: bad57bbd9eed202b435a5df6e91aec1152f7310b359da00560e6c3f839f01ce9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and heuristics indicate it's an image-based lure with a link farm. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, strongly suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by directing users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8806b37757b87394afbd305fd1c1e36/divumimuxivowitar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cr6sb52ae0o6t1iekieo7d136/xununelexemomesuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5f32c88aa---lazuguragekegabagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b07ae66b8dd---dokogomagemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118a7e793c1f---gagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/96966206714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8a7p5r5pc5sbku9qsk6i7pg47/37360688891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/564263744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f26f34c7e5---kejavuxozejusogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/18508148750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confidence-ist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kulatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109ceffb06d0---kizerasusukatiromosewipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/xuvepikizawesonoluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/nemofitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/89690314334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqijsosg5r7tc0c6k9p0o55555/10208568187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/fagejatovoxovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bd09f17b7ec4f9764ebb8e10b8463ee/womerobegebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/didotabenazanifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7a46mt2qfec9m1qf7b2cmhrg1/xinipakagogajamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/joxolajivozukativiwewudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c14be185---30845707474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokshadhamnepal.org/userfiles/files/gusibamatunipefazipisose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d01f9d2ea3363f775a3925ead1c47a8/zidavunusejiwidodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=titration+of+amino+acids+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1E5 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 2c3848c4af674d117477bb601c342f85e72629cf86b3b12828ed6e00c6810a66
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F9 13960 bytes
SHA-256: 54999bdc91a2750692146ef76d2eefc291c5f15fe4c70b996b3fd99a12f3d98b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1