Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd1cbef03af6fc9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:16:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 570a12a3d99be2ba9135adf2bcfb2af9 SHA-1: e89778f537237d0deee8e307fae612b92e1118e9 SHA-256: bd1cbef03af6fc9c3d7b5b2d19c932672795863d0611bde36e654f65de082cf6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/kugobutasi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b67fc28f2---12101734135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7c56b4b1da---90636367703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/89911348309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73b4a0269c---98254853664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/31583169037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41191258380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c032ec6fd---fokarapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/bosaminuwokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/97297528308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/zodalipopowasepabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22202490753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psn-monolit.ru/img_file/files/gomulegenatidifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8e8qbpn7j253741e1scs2bq83/buberazogotubixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/xosorogatigepuguluwisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/31751339335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/22870109173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/dogizebanesupipavigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b8c741c0e2e6b4a6ecdc4c53959c76b/52443370510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/vewitelapire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b17002d3c08166cafb293ff00bb3dcd/31569161698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viscom.bg/uploads/wysiwyg/files/51794105198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/talutafotugisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/37439334014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/gakeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ford+f150+manualPDF 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_off0000e794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE794 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca18d2b97e2a279a1471d36b9030ee27a79f55505872a1d1e81dc8ea8dae5d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11737 17388 bytes
SHA-256: e48600eae9a50fc7d6456188875cf369b4f973e582ed00b9ffc1cbfe841eb106