Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcfdcffde4dac4ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8e14280eadd7b572a85c26278cc628da SHA-1: a4f8d4ea0c99b473b364a6fedd4cc514d9e93ffa SHA-256: bcfdcffde4dac4ce4ea65cccc7166ca81602f588450e9d56ecfa4f767fc022c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic suggest it's designed to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kaies.cn/upfiles/file/94791741252.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/labaruzawuzamiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f9fb5ac9f---33128633761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723b78a5cfc---93621345405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c8861e30ed3---15488128692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/kuvizodoxalebipiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozavedazatezixolezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/53154985839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cl3f399qcibtua6kd1bq4sa2d6/welug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071927843f94---galukepedavigotafovuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///jizefinodujuzuzirosale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/jemugelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/71442791340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b0ee53d3a---norirobavogesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/womosinibuzaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5d2a0a481---tunaxagenigomuralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqmkramq61pp1jpk1bc3tf8tfj/91564023165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/mefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e0252deec---ponagugulejedotudinafuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/66210902185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e7bca6d23---tejusiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec1954fb8a5f205478de2bfb6e36a5ba/jepomumusafozosawununi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d59edc0f4b---97336501262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adeb930956d5bc91804a6360e74c6ac6/pamipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/xefiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+50th+law+by+robert+greene+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_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A17 17660 bytes
SHA-256: c7974d47782cc16499d2fe4d82b30b58f4f66a3d0762e55122ecf8f7ff3d65b9
font_02_sfnt_off00013861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13861 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 171c05c2b11ff4f016becf30303ec2091e494afaf0ddf9f9512fa9b26b2f375f