Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd5b637fec9cd16b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e4af242189d9b4fcdb02dbe7b5231c89 SHA-1: 337184927175b4c4d1e01b07b3c48cabde7d3b11 SHA-256: bd5b637fec9cd16b6b5eee84e78a2d9642f310123596220ec89f7686f03eded3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to domains identified as compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings and numerous external links suggest a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/radamokenikipitiwosomoru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/mileza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612973f9be089---natunawafadaxunav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64572610427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajatuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c38256e10fef388c7f815dfac772c0e/xuwudojanunofexudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gtn6f5ie1tl99hroeupopu2n6/87201676247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papinax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611954b12e79f---18631345419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f21507af6ae2811df0cfe588095f007/dunamujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltarealestate-eg.com/userfiles/file/56234097057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3th2s11oa27bjqni7uu0ce5ne/lapososonolafumudalezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/xikegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094787a1d290---51250151961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/9927914701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46ac31668b8851e36c13183f804b19da/25165505472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sb68dravanmsobfbaq29vguot/7787613671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a4968edbd---36770481554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/lusuxabafuwakusewifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/gujebifazivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd7f1a8ec43f88150e799ce7bb2afd1e/40111805584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e3ff94b69---gominitunoxelolonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalomidafipujufivolawafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juncheng.tw/upload/files/vatabupexibunaded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2449730969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=mpsc+pre+syllabus+in+marathi+pdf+2018PDF 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_off0000db08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31A 20312 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb802af068940c8b524f4c06cfeca7faa9cbb67c785be1798285b9dcc57f112
font_02_sfnt_off0001289b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1289B 11616 bytes
SHA-256: 598ecab9eae87b03756adda50946391d32d2d4306a33d6bc27c3ad07afeee691