Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd0bc297e80e9da8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1a52618306ec57d3fde8df60de52b0fd SHA-1: 508e9f201d89e094055a821100b76af54c31714c SHA-256: bd0bc297e80e9da871e62fd6a2172ff0b5f913da54ecd6c86d9ea33e8d520786
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these compromised hosts. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1108aeed7e66ebf123238c602fd2199/xakejuguwozomeb.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d85fab6b9---betozinuxaz.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/57646389462.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/53136793524.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983bafc1dd4---lakojel.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f340e3ceec3f13e7892bf811b7426ef/wigenutumaneruwokexafot.pdf
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/vufuwuk.pdf
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a887f957611---jagufopikipoxiw.pdf
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946e909cdff---gasotodibefunokirovonit.pdf
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/58245629276.pdf
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/tesavutotagupokedu.pdf
    • http://cuuhoatudong.com/upload/files/39275265002.pdf
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/zexelevuroponipoxifimin.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdmpra9gj5gfvro59dmbn6hnk0/vubesobudodafew.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gc2og0db90cjfb4n31d7jtd8k6/39916876420.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5df31edcfccdf42bc9e6ab5e21ca7d6b/tulemigatedezoverajajubis.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63881e9979---naxuvozaladetudasi.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911d9153375---pimesitesanulurazevosoto.pdf
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/rexepibebero.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ba262f7fd---jilumefu.pdf
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df12c07314bcd57e0be0a17ada41ece2/74585026692.pdf
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/23308084181.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608991e2c338f---85737214232.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/fitidexubibagubuvew.pdf
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6651e5ad41ee27640b7b7ec2c58ff1a1/modij.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=projection+of+a+vector+on+b+vector+formula
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012146.bin
910a938b40ee4ed7b3fb08c90b3576e897d4128d087926ffd969ff0435eb71b1
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12146 18952 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000f071.bin
663c2f1a564556e24c39dfc2d0fc4ba6f33dde89e264e3e6822ca8f657eb732e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF071 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010934.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10934 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001538e.bin
fa6ccb131c81168a50db32fb55eb3f15dd0b07c02dd6f7726332a179c550b225
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1538E 16068 bytes