Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd02ad69251dcc7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 23:41:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2960e78bff850172329b483b8a8b786c SHA-1: ed7f0639441ee529ae5d7fe967adee4ee4911f02 SHA-256: bd02ad69251dcc7f618cbfdb3874bf50a2033c9c5e52f135d66cd0fd702ef355
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly suggest a phishing or malicious payload delivery intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48634109190.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/502391222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dade666.com/userfiles/202107file/2021071410552370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dbp3tbjpnq6ib28bkqffud9d3/mupidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/19515054311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/43929788792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/24587781767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/49641293538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/zoleguwibututolivoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steelbo.com/uploads/admins/u0/files/20210530165028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e617a2cde43c7bf15b8b0ce7d5ed0d/siwaxogejitidepafuxasunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c464ac3734dafb958e99f2145c685b98/samojikobofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6b60ab44cbf5a4f93ba3d789ea53ca/33929545774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f65b9763f44efc9f7f35ca88d419992/78934751915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoskinspugs.net/clients/40498/File/semubedajobura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b444a5c067e4e32fb9cf80daadd1ca8f/80779645105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/josavesisusenemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/sovixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uiqeg1kegu43d8dghbo0j2ml96/83301193698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/54733036444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sananuluxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/wadaselu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2fafbbb1551c42b285619161761c134/30043714152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/80114737955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+reading+passage+the+ct+scanner+answersPDF 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_off0000fd5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5E 16720 bytes
SHA-256: b8b51996b79c7af99f8514e2a09f440299f2962436bc995d9d8b9e7ae1253285
font_01_sfnt_off000127cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127CD 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 381347e1dd7872e038704551624c47ba4631ba8fb24dcad2174109f270182d53
font_02_sfnt_off00014025.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14025 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1