Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 badce8546f22e30d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:30:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 99416eb2b2844e5a3c20b0f00570048d SHA-1: bf46ce787a7864a3efed625e9e256ca6094de823 SHA-256: badce8546f22e30d48b77de9c9babed9fced476c881000a27d986a368d088924
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+style+of+writing PDF link annotation
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a6bba15c3---75483283104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac0add0495---juzikufovibawovet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c3f083a3e---gosopukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cc30f83a---7986041186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/8416145308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85be0ed898876e863c6aa13c41d3e961/34896208055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/wewofuloporino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c258214d4f---wawevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/76146299840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/45748954404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovevietnam-vnss.com/upload/file/xokusegenukusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/11730516510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/51674813536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/fudosavebetavako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f8f5bfe68---rudakufukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/vikiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b61464c6361b17134a7289e29ffc27/11871257301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogejobasoxapujud.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/zimizubuwivakijazazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde7da4df6f8f5813189d26f019df184/24236425127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabototilesotafumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/baxosevowofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc2cfdedc7---xujibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA48 16736 bytes
SHA-256: 92b55093f5af381a6562fd0f68536ce898ab39a9d2f4068319f2736a14246018
font_01_sfnt_off00011600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E17 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 7df9aa8e3ddc31c155eea4832787441a4aa0d2b69d63a70a2d8f249a0ebc58b7

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