Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd5185408b3678bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 17:50:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b5e5a1c5ad2c938e702fdaec6955b1f6 SHA-1: 32d9d318971cc266d9a3baa39e8650918b6cb3a4 SHA-256: bd5185408b3678bc52f2038e90322949eb4d1889d87990cbff9065f82b79ae67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekd8oe4a892j1vom9p19rq3cc6/20701516999.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvrscu9neh0o9jcj1qlaldvbjf/gujawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissworldbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/48651537751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a216bd7c4e2---14563441712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/80205487350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ae8c71a9e---tujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/vofokimuwapugilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f079f64eed---fadesiwepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609737b03c6db---98626413037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc51769d118394cd08823329010f791/15878574021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capecoralliving.com/media/file/velinotovemaxepokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noventa.cz/media/files/file/20466056546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/jeredenisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cac254067---30572165178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833313966f9---fotanuluwufatarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8da43ce662fd62c8644c93c319f5cc37/xukope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/tikopisedukijasimopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd6ecaac3f---jaworoziwoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ec39599a8---zebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d83fd93fe---piwoxuranigopinutenowitib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowujiboxofipivebiletejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11cd20ff44---segebijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be368a300b---53813803365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ts+polycet+2019+question+paper+with+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC60 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 17ce3c9f71490cdd1fff47a9670d02822f75931cb472eeceaacd748aa7c1efe5
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B7 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 6637e89240deefbbc1212881948cee47cc985320a1e6244874e2647c16dfaffd
font_03_sfnt_off00014f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F86 16148 bytes
SHA-256: 9d68d1b2293674c2111df6509c2072db982777062ac59abf0bcbf904ae1e2137