Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd795451d15f5ed1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:47:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cd846928611c309a2997bd6757d58b94 SHA-1: d33934b7fcd13c5d491144da08517604ea7c6137 SHA-256: bd795451d15f5ed188480ca244ab0f7a9a50228a60f10fceb87e33946c8a2471
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other unknown domains. This suggests the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41827933215.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/zopemutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161152f006beab---67723106219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084681a70fce---16177360928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58899679335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30f55085fd---nofimumerigikujenegemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078efbc1ede7---gasolewefazaguxegudubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxefoxusosubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/puwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://righetti-ticozzi.it/userfiles/files/sagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/lujuwipanebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5e823be79---70948471854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaytonfa.com/upload/files/foworap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/82369934650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/54025376234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100abb0bc56a---50670198485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322f6975357---73356570549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/70627545986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalace-charvat.cz/userfiles/file/70597253849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monographie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31344803448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/98747514134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmbam7mio07jkiuosdodudr9f8/gepurewufowabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46f66bf4abb8f49ee15f36aadd7b31dd/70194556772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/rojekuzado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=faire+pivoter+pdf+adobePDF 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_off0000e227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE227 10356 bytes
SHA-256: a677f9dd37ed927f56baba9a2eecf425cb8e851c72b5e349c4551a1755301251
font_01_sfnt_off0000f971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF971 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11183 20028 bytes
SHA-256: 653830d31662a82459af550cae5116ed423fb9b39320c9bbe6b0df0be37f8328