Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd3fcd0aaddf2d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 825908b4a6c3c6e9ae915d3cfcf742d7 SHA-1: ff8c10e5459d0349ce3939a0a05ebccfab7f46a4 SHA-256: bd3fcd0aaddf2d8b9cdbbafc5a1c8c79394396e466f0ae13929edbb9aaa646db
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains elements that, combined with the heuristics, point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://acconpriti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segirofuduk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/21804978789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210901_110717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/fegilufisaxizepadomakale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/susezafonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/mewinika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandalaya.in/resources/file/pabifudawabusijomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/lapelewibipakiwurixoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/gemurazesotiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovepetclinics.com/file_media/file_image/file/jatiwupemogeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nunurimavosisotufuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/75312308067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/95617197539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1505e0118b830070b5bd103af6dd1ce/palaremezomudiguxinoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/55678884814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimaglobal.net/ckupload/files/18399382930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/xikuxadufutusezajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/93122402448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613428ce14145---zagaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bfd9db5ee768d28afd4045953fbc685/97731897835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613340d49fe73---75566619958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/87870188144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/17632807489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=download+hungry+dragon+apkPDF 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_off0000db3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3D 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 111da3fdd431686efa8da15b381eb61604f444062fd5b2b1d955a8d607d388fa
font_01_sfnt_off00010a04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001221b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1221B 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 7acccf489e74110ef00f77c33810a609e30f9956b40945330926a112da1475f4