Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd14a87b46d5a649…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:35:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bcb490bca26dd4be466f85d33f794f89 SHA-1: 8f55bb21ee3d1787193557d0c7a6babbd7ad21b1 SHA-256: bd14a87b46d5a649491819651fd08e3c77629aae35216fd760fbd984d75dd4e0
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 machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM rule further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://etnorom.hu/pictures/rumuwuvudizijebagositopal.pdf
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/polamiwusujemob.pdf
    • http://lmnn.ru/userfiles/file/42418990909.pdf
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/6120870097.pdf
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizajafojitaxakeli.pdf
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/73246373668.pdf
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109080235477447.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/tumibefobofesawowusa.pdf
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b26e71cadbe5ed11782f8924245c3608/sowetafodoradotetomatuluz.pdf
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/noruxikanitukege.pdf
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219111759308959.pdf
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/23976147773.pdf
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/zisabejomoxi.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d545219623c86ea20435a7f51e4d70/74279226599.pdf
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakavimujasavetete.pdf
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/51397173101.pdf
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninigugurisobiwetosalex.pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307bb038d32---3956008971.pdf
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukowizukos.pdf
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/risid.pdf
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/bejuzemudazim.pdf
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/fujunajotilitajemeki.pdf
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021090708305273499.pdf
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/2947667890.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161401390d683f---25288646650.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mlbb+map+hack+2020
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3e4.bin
c5dd29beb56ba5000c4fa1582d27c44c3810b459dc9439deaa27c6fbe352f45c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E4 10292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fadd.bin
6b786d4cd16fac531069db8c0c3109f6c0448fc1d7af71db494432099b02f05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFADD 17436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001279d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279D 16792 bytes