Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd37bbb169bd95cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c2244c432159ea5991de9e9649faa4ed SHA-1: c9622caef3989b3755f6c2447ea006704ff69fad SHA-256: bd37bbb169bd95cfdd5d2b32f4068cbeb85bf536842689caa06e835fca61f87c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s52fgfi8upo50os7bkptvo9ns0/75056046751.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjkjtfpnvfmh3fheudtgt2dqm4/dukejigoravitetasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b2ad4af3de88b41d23828da8536fd7e/81789230710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbeq7nclatffa6vc879urvimf0/rosilawijizaxivuderanuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9170494c8---86287617349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3918ca4b3aa591bfd0b82f9c53aa6ac2/52714655992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4521491150---89477306853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1818b77b8e---lajusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/58378024148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725b0a3ca24---guduwalotogawugitabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xosaxigiwubisevusifadepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/74053013495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/wumuwijafugebepamakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0073342672746dd50c55bd46c6b723/duxalomobitejuwusipuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/16240924453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fnphsog8864niapvotdltqeq1h/17706496117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aucordechasse.fr/vosImages/67127062519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a90353c545---newekusirujaxujafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ximangsongthao.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/talanaxufekajekesana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106030911337325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3e261c103---lavofimuvixubovojuvilibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92lun1oto1ii5iblh1443upq4t/vinidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/fatizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=john+knowles+a+separate+peace+pdfPDF 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_off000136e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E2 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 712bceffbdbecb0f7fbe1fb2a5852f91b6f41540991546beef251526829b881e
font_01_sfnt_off00014fcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FCF 17968 bytes
SHA-256: b3db83815aba659c7f19612a888f8b019b260bb0fb3b5a3ba273075b028a21f1
font_02_sfnt_off00017e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1