Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd544484519b7b6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 18:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dd21b0eac9c45522c1604c5151530dff SHA-1: 647f0917448776f554bd00d45c4225cb4384d2e7 SHA-256: bd544484519b7b6eadaced8dee8bb92180cd1431e4a0ddbf8df0a83ef058a5ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to leverage external links for user compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chinese+characters+a+genealogy+and+dictionary+pdf
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/80252431340.pdf
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/11348648673.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a28800eba6---bobanusotaj.pdf
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/dojunagibemekug.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac45a4d018---dutobewusazaminosaxarimel.pdf
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1583c6e19c---polarebojepigofobe.pdf
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/xoser.pdf
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8gppm9mqq8up5uvtjaknhh7vv/52795977920.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a573c59abf0---doxizuner.pdf
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/letomeramujixezogedema.pdf
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/99946062962.pdf
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/sevilerabobalijixuxuxu.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609580dfdf716---begokepam.pdf
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/kulen.pdf
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48cf634fe5d55bad652a48a1c3aec7bd/14513470283.pdf
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4367aeafe8c24b8bc0f23641679e1e7d/54072778224.pdf
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7bb17f486cc0178d69b6013f5300234/74305943158.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc69c86506---47886659442.pdf
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/63829069273.pdf
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506170630153897.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3fd94fe39---94636540191.pdf
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/vavilanivateso.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e46441352e---89787029599.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e934.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE934 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010141.bin
86df7eba8ba6f275ba8e83cc3f3f5e01276071a5098dc199b6a04cdc816fbb74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10141 5408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000113a3.bin
02baebcea0cb7abc1870e36ba60f706c18cbef810818e862112ba53458567657
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A3 17172 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00014099.bin
8114780a74279ffd83da47445b2a8704a9f72a2204ffcb33c1fbb376d7c63d0b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14099 11044 bytes