Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd76d49c6d80b3ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 04:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 7d476584219c0d2f5db7506c11be6444 SHA-1: 2cbc11426b3f5c6be1f29dc8b4cec2a06dc802b7 SHA-256: bd76d49c6d80b3aceb6b5e8a792375608812ddcd166d04e89ca1927b3ec633c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a link farm designed to obscure the true destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/vowixutexomoru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/digozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgardening.nl/images/file/24636909919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/bugolopifodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6d0039e0a---17783302837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd2965a4a1384177825333a76b11e2e/xavexivojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2022fd23af8f8660e1b401c6fc1891a4/66612605601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/wumexotozolativuxovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qdbh602rfhjfo3ee05v4me3o0/9249320991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2979fd04d1fe51db771035990868a0b8/batewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/bofigukafelavese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq1hjoo82etkdjv0vlba4l8a93/27294096126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finpacecuador.com/userfiles/file/31806927635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/76762951328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resttour.com/images/userfiles/files/53405799825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a35fa7e65a1---jizezibuvatedami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db4f21715488477a3c22e9ba24db25cb/44605991555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkoksolarpower.com/syner_upload/images/files/luzisumenajibud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408a9d3d91---7444201249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/57229924647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/pazitoporewomerimosodisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+hidraulica+azevedo+neto+8+edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000ee88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE88 19636 bytes
SHA-256: 73bd1df287b5af049cfba392a7722f90fec9bfe0111c71cd61ad40abca9eb4e3
font_01_sfnt_off0001200f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200F 11524 bytes
SHA-256: 33e48f4354b9336cf22776f2de0234c4fd6de6c9cea86984f25af734f5e657d3
font_02_sfnt_off00013aaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1