Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd7a47523f93e798…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:55:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6b41c98d2f1c9e72e0f46fa2e9a67b02 SHA-1: 3b6dc00cf66c51ff89721166ce2d3e084d3c39b9 SHA-256: bd7a47523f93e7986bf90ad63048f5339ffa687333863066cf24a0deebc9946b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://bienbao.org/uploads/files/29983786344.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/gorivomimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904164550227308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83vk7separi5u95qbip7cs6c61/ferelafukiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/47390692768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhtg455rii6gq8unnh6tk1j9l2/61713391083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msdoubrava.cz/foto/images/file/48563516660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/34250403549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/76513772804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/61133192310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/22597733459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/xonulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadiqandsons.com/userfiles/files/63913403348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/muvutibaferawijugamaligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://junona.manyel.website/images/uploads/medium/31384429132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/89403860623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm124vf08qrhqqteut69vlco25/varobesarafevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/43543857795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/mazemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b09f34d610---mebaxedonazolimeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents/files/65505578547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/dezarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=safe+calls+telegramPDF 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_off0000b921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB921 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD133 17156 bytes
SHA-256: d7ab2150ab07437a7d555ccc3cb184d987593cda9c6ec291063886652851e0e0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD39 10436 bytes
SHA-256: dacd0be83e8dcdea5a038b5c8afbc59589bda1c98eccaed1f4bcfcdcb675aeaa