Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 badc745ba8e6fb59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-08-31 10:33:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4b9f4a23eefe33c4c3ab653381697bea SHA-1: c6661728a28f2dd20698e8f185812a369e915f90 SHA-256: badc745ba8e6fb5983c2948556e76563e97556715b65f7e99f19940e7aec6d72
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The presence of a 'link farm' heuristic suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ximeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cec4bca489---sibumira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcee3443edb---jakutigodetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41254199158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhere.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108120950201472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/51766588506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b219f176a---devemirobapedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///lisodeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/68903744890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/16436591493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/31751827573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/rokurenirizukoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluestandard.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/munalozoxeniraneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb81357db5---54220290558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/49627949187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahyadvere.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/37201606496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/12916431141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27658495440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/99600389986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708a98605dd---xebixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/82329237942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=sap+hcm+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000cfd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD9 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 30d1df56bf23ef6bc6f94a466547d2913c74761f25ebe006f436d6ffa05d442e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D8 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 22fed7e592b572e970fef3f22cfa739731a8e5466e7749f0fdb8077b25db64fc