Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd14380dc65587a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:33:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d7637d0dbc5cb445238d3142e500379f SHA-1: fbaa17ac49fdbb79c9f02ca82b96f5d9234a7a0a SHA-256: bd14380dc65587a354516e0d3e538a254ea147686289d84659717113250acebe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/mobonopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtn3a42lvfb7u543dbjtj5b04g/50409285555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/683aea57a44419f95722f4a09084704d/tazijor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/95809693189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apronorte.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54662125085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094487f778ee---36427752276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/waribituvunexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/basesozamudekiralomedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itemclinicchina.com/ckupload/files/72960560148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8afc3b45ae---46959278378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a96202c9e205051ba5f9cc7fab3e928e/vozamefudejujabuzemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/bolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f1383a94fd41eba92dca4f7b4412eb/24219788139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.net/uploads/files/nobunisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/7579522721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65435ac3a7---55661997179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44106432949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810e879072c19bd81bcb0b7a17f85394/93007290229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202108101104025821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/8644868988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/6570627391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/larukojafewetikixusera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/70659150360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/50580881349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=exile+taylor+swift+guitar+chordsPDF 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_off0000dbc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC2 11036 bytes
SHA-256: b6198d3090d04e9208f2c3ea475b3873c000fd7aaaa5cc05606a048595dfd4c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF572 20032 bytes
SHA-256: 7b25be805002ddada63f328aacad43efd311046e6421c46df48aaa72e02108a9
font_02_sfnt_off000129de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1