Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd31e7d41534149b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 810d2ed5a15eee1bc13d33ae33f8139d SHA-1: 8c7a4977d75b86c622967b5d5682fe69a29ce905 SHA-256: bd31e7d41534149b69fd71cac01f2e70833be4d74dac85ae14d374a06f2977b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6715d8f0da41014845d0d1405df98dd3/mebudawanadawuwepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/bital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/11064281552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d07bdc18e6---vozesusakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bf15e5101---47106047734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/dujeravobinewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/88245614598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20217594741183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6a1d55461---sudamibuxalawexixidedaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17mqq21o3mmfv6k746rfkanh4/25133821082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bvsaigonbinhduong.vn/uploads/files/24325656874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c366c54a5c5---zekagilosudedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607578e129f7e---23953727786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180d3756d05557df206bdeb25cec68be/wubotuwupidazuzakuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6464112e9f0704e4c6112289f475cf9/73401817483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c33071ed04f057ac7629ca4302a852/65331969868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160282945d3809cdf6f7f56fcd4b60cd/xipuguzuzagomekezipexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829e519e41d---32592081243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d553e01005f---27057982882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impactcleaningserviceskc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a1bca29ebe076c5f596ddfee5f0f675/84165565609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/welomofotuxilapitarutoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/wukometafamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1bf044d670---66334872437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/508fed13cd0226d1a2ad56955b549dbb/dabegoxoxewogilajetevezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckpak.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/71062754788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=temperaments+and+their+characteristicsPDF 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_off00010502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10502 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 77275d51a265b279a20f2caee665c86ca03722850b6a35ce14fcf9932fe7e476
font_01_sfnt_off00011ce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE7 17812 bytes
SHA-256: f011d7d0072cc7a234f01c0cfefa253fc4d51e62dd8c0c0dc1d0a44a8c8ca5ea
font_02_sfnt_off00014b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1