Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd9b071c157a706c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-08-06 01:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6ecf6897566d85c786217c6288ac42ac SHA-1: 34c51aefba3aa038ee7b947dbbbe74a04ff36b4c SHA-256: bd9b071c157a706c005ba46fdedff8a95b290ff8299617d88f65c5b0cbfd5ab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of numerous external links suggest it is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modele+de+lettre+pour+juge+des+affaires+familiale+gratuite PDF link annotation
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/62935145471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/62730411111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/45698336074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f3d443ab59e0d2f74b0abafcb9bbd9/68828122765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/19795011390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creative-format.com/upload/editor/files/nexujajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da585429f06c18e02faa6a8b96fa800/zelufulezerijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081822a3a3ab---pumuwefiwomupatanifiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/mokoronuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87de34138958bd3ad51e4da3f62e1fc9/padaranim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j40uheh2kclp2t4oveemu2gap1/34708699453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104dd20a5e0f---15049895280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannails.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/tazipafitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c3dc485e5---mupinofibunekuruvalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/tilapodojevojujif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/82463823564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/53651781265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6311ca87e2470fa8f041eb222c3ec41/14408916484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160faab0cf27df---jadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afeb3e6d3cc---97522882926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/puvawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g9ui719u6656ag9h9rvtdib58/nuzarojolavufulexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90062058461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ce1703b67---10354292509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD27 10960 bytes
SHA-256: bfbe390e8f69679037206dd5101edbc382a0a16b2495d544d139af54781c273d
font_01_sfnt_off00011656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11656 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 880e92a02c42f87e16e6cfaf1e34a1d97cf8d3b9453fe5379f2cdff76882c7a3
font_02_sfnt_off00014504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14504 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1