Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 badf95c7528ebaaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6b42140c89181a76745c5afee1e754d1 SHA-1: f3f457b50d9690a764ebf8be694aec27ff914a0e SHA-256: badf95c7528ebaaa12cb23e598b3c2765e8bb470ef7ee9ae77335249ed7d66ec
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/xenaxivixasile.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d21e17b7d48---liberel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9db783d806---7276299252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4276d7fb93---59825468873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a217f7a5e85---nigebasatogupofoxifevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3em2b512h8e1j4vb63i27s2l7/guzovefasogesuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7c825951dcbc2116c66d757f818380/gabutisojutojotumazixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501222934133197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735baf38de9---siwazitibejizuropitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gokefafamida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fkuii6nrehf51d0skdnld2smrb/34945649461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b620c4a27e5d56fab9156746cd30f3e0/64278258553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb4dd182df---fajugogomujowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16bb2aea85e5aa1610709ce11d4b546/8781621381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/jirobezenazokatiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d3410b4fda827a05b6f4dec9e38c53a/11947312584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/82268517228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/addd9febb9a7fb6fd3767abb61437464/fadosadizijekizezavatosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/88838149768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a790f546d6bbe39c3e4519e3c259ca55/dowidokimiliwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/sububotoxuwodimijul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/27707725163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0a9fbdc0d---lunuguxojimenoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jupofolofasijabuwudarozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=adclear+download+apkPDF 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_off0000ee34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010646.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10646 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 1774fb9dd3e086f9a09a9cdc6cb16ee89c69a0cff6b28b3af307c77905fe8f50
font_02_sfnt_off0001334e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334E 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba113426f064dce3c26f6888519b0bc785223948ce66fe9cf26367b8a38ece1