Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd9f34cff3069d3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-12 17:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f162b354cde62cbc1ed1750c2e4d91c SHA-1: 2f1504e8803fa889a720140a0c1907468b88acc0 SHA-256: bd9f34cff3069d3e2f9d29004f668884a3daa2e4c839f3dc981daf1eceb95641
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URIs, with several pointing to IP addresses or compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple malicious links strongly supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/85011585176.pdf
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj3u7vo707hen5r2jav3f1o3jd/89033717949.pdf
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16226867681900465769.pdf
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/gezev.pdf
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ec7547acb---vakimav.pdf
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/24953427248.pdf
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a982d9710741bcc473e677488e17a56a/6493674309.pdf
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a9d9f81a28f93e1455e948d2795275/mogilusos.pdf
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/132f8c3b83297284637c4186b091b86b/58146795814.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/zorisivikipisilup.pdf
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/risuwotofif.pdf
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bofpjg6ltgp2o32odusjq6g9l9/tedonigafolibuje.pdf
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/96364450515.pdf
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/90619154572.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070df5990502---45661012316.pdf
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/806200659.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb00bc1291---58840735703.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e2f937ca8---fiminixiwurekudeziso.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4bb1cb53d---86572859314.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr3ornjdqu3865qrq74a5903aa/lamajadesamafimivegekurez.pdf
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea330f0a79---zuparolotanid.pdf
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oivng9raa80c977topl2p9rp87/12256220382.pdf
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/gezijizigedev.pdf
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/706433581.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=10+usd+to+rand
    • 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_off0000da8c.bin
137768a9e72ee323861e88f0b804f0fb009f58ac2f92f9b81fa6c51458e7fb60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8C 10148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001096f.bin
ed1b81294c3f464856b7758ce4092da48591717520d14c2bd6e88d3e0d0f787a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1096F 17092 bytes