Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd09c869439b9664…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:11:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d73225081ca7b00e221c31775e997aa9 SHA-1: 62890a5ab6388160b7e2e9a635f0f2e30d87a10e SHA-256: bd09c869439b966451af14249657a712235308e952959e1df3b18a075fceeeb7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, further supporting its role as a malicious container.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://dhesient.com/media/52626498747.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/59819964112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/dabozolisaguwalusuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f982337fbece976822b6f8cb16a904/nitijibulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820334a4208---37269288056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ebc83c947c2c5dbb337a348d8f1dcf0/77533197351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097648b6be01---liriredusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/melijuwigovutiluxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a988b27052d---surigeworajasitisupuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/80674870929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/68635325202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacc5ca94d2---27692927767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/zolawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1oo6tuu8mlsn7qi40te46p0cia/77941469576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///riwuwixaxozeroxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trips-in.com/ckupload/files/4925411722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejusamonerirami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/xiwutogesifixulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/taparerezuwigurakuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/36504242287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210503121041498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/968a1184a16a82fae16ff6015863d25b/57730121112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=macbook+really+slowPDF 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_off0000c2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2FF 10356 bytes
SHA-256: bb1854423971ad1191c45ef573aa7e5bf7ea449dbd4b5c50eb4c870eb427027e
font_01_sfnt_off0000daac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BE 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 8b75716ac6bbca22ec3f37c1cd14468b4e878721f7233f3199a9947132b4f926