Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd6a9fd5cd84e980…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d0a4070f6db98161c9eebf7fa444ff97 SHA-1: 65c4d4394aacea60bb5c7e6b514ae6295cc2a5ad SHA-256: bd6a9fd5cd84e9805d3812b02483317f6535b87bb87e0bd582245bbdc8695801
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely intent to download and execute a second-stage payload or redirect users to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+emulador+de+nintendo+ds+para+android+apk
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafopanifugasovawanokojid.pdf
    • http://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/wifetazogajerumidin.pdf
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/12072599375.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e897e3888---85288899220.pdf
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/lozelesitavuruvolazawawe.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5c3211ef4---70507359883.pdf
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/ramiso.pdf
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/bejavukupixajepedo.pdf
    • http://neodentpetrosino.it/userfiles/files/lexixatoromaje.pdf
    • http://fundacjahfg.pl/upload/file/femebokolalanigunog.pdf
    • http://studiorapizza.it/userfiles/files/bevibaw.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f81d9ee02---vuvirur.pdf
    • http://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/jekowelunewuxalavev.pdf
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/32410547696.pdf
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/xosalalolonafagad.pdf
    • http://www.photonics-science.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosagipasaguvujiset.pdf
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75350883008.pdf
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/51447427532.pdf
    • http://enidental.com/userfiles/file/20210920081147.pdf
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202109file/2021091300340770554.pdf
    • https://qwert5.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/memutataxafukadat.pdf
    • http://bennett-legal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/maxad.pdf
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowonoparubiri.pdf
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/95125348316.pdf
    • http://artikos.pl/userfiles/file/75432937388.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d788.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD788 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin
38c67294088814a98a2d76e80ac57e925798b62007e9ecda8647ec4fa5d61215
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 11048 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010927.bin
fcf59f59fd03f71f36c58ea3c918b14f5dce3fa519161db305b5e44cde2656f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10927 17392 bytes