Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 badc1a6eeea4de0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4d150ca579b40b15c0510d0fb9b442bc SHA-1: a5194d779450f0368d8c47d00c65f550a437c015 SHA-256: badc1a6eeea4de0d66394516a55e61b993b8cc14f37d59a18f03b1ce65610960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URLs pointing to other PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The presence of a Google feedproxy URL suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage a benign-looking redirect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/80213827702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ersenergy.com/UserFiles/file/48040883865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettocecinacuore.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/buzufamopizekanobojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fatowawigoxinetobame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proficlim.ru/public/userfiles/file/61390086843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53397443348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/95491596972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-baze.lv/images/site/file/mupidozidazezizebadaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144081d9cd2a---74901902213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/jitexijojeteberudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bipaf.org/2009_home/upload/editor/file/wijokovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pusuvafazosize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/wixibuvizopepitodobogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kblsgrmhs60mh1t9o7ajui5vnh/99200723037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukowuwumufonabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adf34e326df4d0cc22d53a2fa0375464/33190807776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/27441915128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23162ed2b442045cf7e31a24dbca6eaf/fifumisegeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/81861132162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/futebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/31802789055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/71488034879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazdalkodjokosan.hu/img/userfiles/file/wegusefosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=watch+annabelle+creation+full+moviePDF 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_off0000fb55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB55 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 6b22bc5a3df06b251dd418d0ff73fb0ba8cd3799a62e46166ae5685dbdb3cda5
font_01_sfnt_off000128c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140DD 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 724b12a7016215a63e53b02a053bdefddc13c94846ea33d3aac5a8ed463a1f9c