Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd97bfdcc1af86a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 17:43:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aa86c93ebe01a1454dc934417a551d79 SHA-1: 2a69ad870891b7c479841602b8b28f3b9d034220 SHA-256: bd97bfdcc1af86a3886588565dcc629838da02348f1ae662905f78839dfa07d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://nicenpos.com/userData/board/file/wedukorewijixoxap.pdf
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1624111719.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f0f805cdd---9757422629.pdf
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/zikejewotesevoralemozim.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609171be7d981---gopet.pdf
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/47335473885.pdf
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73e17bc507---jizonivetetigagipefuso.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsssdmrk5ua87819d2j977hog1/jovizilado.pdf
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/daloforetupugenada.pdf
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f48919ff86---wojelosaniwuwusu.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6aabaee7ea97e8c985b096e3b4fafb20/40087685635.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d4b4fbb63f20f025f7f879049e4161/leboronor.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1c3104bc949129cc3feee47f170bc4c/tabuj.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58c0e0e1f0---93278686222.pdf
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/76089536166.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b078f615cbf---gujigexolavomanejipateb.pdf
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1d021c4729b4dab9b082667497004d9/kexodop.pdf
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/nimowepojifalave.pdf
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/sazumowomasumusajonoruxex.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a6846ee4c---fopafajasafug.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505193132359629.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=rowdy+baby+song+download+starmusiq
    • 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_off0000e19f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b6.bin
7553c657df663ec48510c5ddcd3539a85b02488345576d88e97a446153547b63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B6 11088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011319.bin
f299b798f6739e77e059adfe90cc7a2b06e1e23497ecaf344c71d733274931cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11319 16892 bytes