PDF malware analysis — malicious · bc831e7fd49d5799

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 07:35:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13

MD5: ea0e1eaae06bff31b2179c13fd870031 SHA-1: 3f5990dea4364690874db3e5a87a869533778e4b SHA-256: bc831e7fd49d5799740aa3fb70817adc6ed12afab0cd26cd85c1f0e9ebbd0dd7

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm that directs users to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021051003172823.pdf In PDF document text
- http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1622132126.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1918a0691563c6e14b2e8c6b3899c63/kewevosefeforiniwefokavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abefe674ec9---gawanixudu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608108414b06c---76772290260.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e842d84946---5472057074.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c3c3755f3---54370229869.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hof2nq36136rc6iasi8ilgpui4/20425048750.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f680f98c40---majovopamulebogetolobi.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://okazionche.com/files/40616453391.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/62216604766.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b9d892388---pivofukivufowatijagakibu.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/sagudafefamovara.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a14f83304---xigekesadasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8c145097a---45401032082.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0ldgsmd3rksqt5tbio8k6hbbg/36966697590.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f27de29de7---fozeberegovikizuza.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://europartner2.pl/uploads/wivaduxogipikegoxelofeb.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/53431372356.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ba9b06e3e---3450611513.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b92a5361da067fc4dd10b81e766025/69624097059.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44f0b9162c7ff63f9ce28f3ca57f4448/ditonatubexobego.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca976b44fd54cf4bfb959bd5c9dfd8b3/25633375743.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f67cb5e443---47917415605.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/65797746418.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5ccd10fe5---62732850991.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=where+is+the+temple+of+mara+in+riftenPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off00013494.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13494	20116 bytes
SHA-256: `051f4db33204a8a77d482674fd419859fb072617261c47ba4ed4aa322ddb0573`
`font_01_sfnt_off00016803.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16803	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_02_sfnt_off0001801a.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1801A	10616 bytes
SHA-256: `9b9855060c267cebc9226926f6a4dd2a6789aed18a77ef0364b63b1dabab8652`

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