Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd28c319d3833423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 22:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 09eeff688774e0fc6a074066b06c47d0 SHA-1: 022aea7ac1b28162d0e224c6ad1e068fc32f1d4b SHA-256: bd28c319d38334231ff74455cf86dd8da055b1e0daf8d5ca0edd201e730ae36d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malware. The presence of embedded JavaScript, combined with heuristics indicating a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881f2642d12---nerawi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/34408351820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d38ca79b00829ee61fa8e18392f47e/74767092721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/31320922185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/17046542927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/54990992053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/23328578621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093acd4c62a2---10453067020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e820da18b---torovegize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nappsa.org/userfiles/file/wajuzeroxiwuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/dogewozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a22351c21c2---17000098561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kpnigf65ur5l0isj2popmkh3h8/50486830592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/15915338492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e4b4724b3---37658944160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/35743356719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e57dae3df3684ac07ad320ba1a18d26/debimasobikovamusemuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6228c71c4---vetimidaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6cecedd95---fozosotodabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2ff7df087a0057aec83e3bbe3f825d/juwiwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sedovulidojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088869d9899f---87439860074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761f14a23f5---paxalibiwame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/74035226173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0u6coilnrk7qo60t2e9s561rn0/50289178857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=mario+kart+tour+android+hack+apkPDF link annotation
    • https://mediacentre.aerlingus.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuderaboraribonivopiwuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF215 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 8041fdad1d75fb2bac0f7f0cef1c65b37686307b05c41681a0d43a1e4f435f45
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D7 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 05bd003dd598439da9b2c13302cd7ac1584ba1d369320cfdc3d41c5333f4cc87