Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd009dc62ded5ea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 11:08:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: aa836f57a4af3c0a8c1d94da4f0a4c82 SHA-1: df460983a2537e6f9f944f3c17e54900ef628f3e SHA-256: bd009dc62ded5ea8b89c2c2b27e2de83838bea513da63b8974549218a7592e78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/47763740451.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/9434040620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iteequipment.com/clients/65150/File/rulokigoduliwinixiduxulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/32357239672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e02b19891c4---nodefujejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/45780072964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kexavegovupedalewajirofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/logofativipodefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq5re22k088ol4cd91b5ujn0i3/xegudadukotawixetem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c4aa7ce3af---56089013655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tillyardci.com/userfiles/file/suzatevewovotigabekijurax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuppersbusch-center.ru/uploads/files/wifevumozefarurugoravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/64399635104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/15659130026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fuoq0dr63mkmctt2t9b2816li5/wuxitadazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaluwozitekutiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3c2fe47270---woruditapilag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055775b9ed3749fa0df2bf91246241ab/24070917315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3880060549---vukomujajodisodap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gnkj0m7585dsjojb3vhb8g7to8/xojemojidowopovuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/denavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/200620564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=leptailurus+serval+for+salePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b338210aa5b727792d435bd6f239a261/67676369317.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000162ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162EE 18628 bytes
SHA-256: b34c19a3023bb232d989dd227312bab31aedeac5816a0977cac60eb46faa6ecd
font_01_sfnt_off00019280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19280 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 710ac841937d130a1b30ad155e643f2315f278507b8e5d78af4beac9b0e8f133
font_02_sfnt_off0001aa21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1