Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bced72040db64504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:36:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d4523eb80f1c63c2c387a0ae5d6891e3 SHA-1: 1cd3577b85c3e810ac00ab8519143e61555e04d5 SHA-256: bced72040db64504bcb613e708dc0444aa0e8810738b5df4f33838cf99cf38c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517104422191707.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610081378b52b---pufepelorimividamudadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/zeniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeci.nl/im/image/42327482235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/26372744124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac704cac042---90574066469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82f4f0cc4d---16610208048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/govajetevemedelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakowska98.com/zdjecia/fck/file/dodeboxukadizimedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/faxonaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/95435045201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/salulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/88729070476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1nesqvhci6qdqnvhvm8o296om/86444342977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3v9b7ll5ne63oo5r2770t5poi0/24261654188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37363298086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/50362547616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.it/file/27140243420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/lawekaturevaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqnvujrlji36b753s8n47u7sr6/jeloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87171912563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5ffa83881---lokitewabewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/76430005409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05248d9e879395a0168d73f5332e623d/71358304079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62da5ef031fa3e8013aa9785ab440be8/61576115048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=kanji+look+and+learn+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000c36e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC36E 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 86264da0970a4b6209296d27628c5ee360d2ba8583fb142eadb6abb98d876678
font_01_sfnt_off0000db6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37F 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 98a05598f44ef366a4ca0b34e7b462696184a8f19d80d8ec4a60353340fda126