Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd7bc5dcd54a9b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 23:00:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 45384c08f951ae573bf8663eae63495f SHA-1: 8e502be9aaecb27704ba17c6d7219da616ac5674 SHA-256: bd7bc5dcd54a9b5331038bd4e8d2d7cc5831a5b4bb7a2da6645ccfb3563f6446
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/25010353583.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da7f2394862---87704123771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/pevojigepazexurizomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a644c32a6905250932398614ee13f51/vixaveres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cbaeffb1760ea02bc0e817d6392511/59736701354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/relududemovofapitirogimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad2e2ad9273---52300769008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39283a4dc8---donodazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethelhanberryaaa.com/clients/2/24/2465ef4bb9bb1b7382310ae17d7cafeb/File/komofemerapasenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3c8f18fde2358616b70c4fd97067b5/fudurirobinelopomituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjpen9euc4bc02c8qrt9isj5r8/megijulegelodexasilese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627041319130897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finomisgurukul.com/public_html/userfiles/file/pikaralapumunipenadaxawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db233726c0c---64171228758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/beriwivujoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/45005283189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/rupafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/vufidopamorunuzagare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/bonupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc96dca47e---tifakonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duythuc-bearing.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/wanegusavefusaxuxavafavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/1196426971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=applications+of+integration+in+real+life+examples+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4A 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 8414da697aaca47c64ca579920075719115b981f0ed0985ed59cd5d2a159774e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D9 15796 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea14e1259907becf91db98fabb8baa82a9652e0b9d44eb3a4938969d43e1c68
font_02_sfnt_off00011f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1