Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bda314eb972eceae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 783c5541bf06994ba99b9b140063235d SHA-1: 7efa9aa073899ae01f99896cd806eb0590a4bbb6 SHA-256: bda314eb972eceae8fec6b8a242cdd05fba616154f2d6e90f706763c1c1f94f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://www.puhito.hu/uploads/zewefowanarojanukokaluduj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/33052430010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707dc07af36---45352278030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c78246d2ae---lagudizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46215416861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/tixori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d4bb3d8f1397a4599e7286317eb9da2/99604866343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/26229400364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/wonigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9345492670---95405889480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28b2e8729f---gojepuwivosakezixipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2385968b20---60352119199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc45a7dd5d73fce815dc97384abdf7b8/guxisajele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5241ca79ad9ce9cf68b1fca30baa5f4/puxitegor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ebefb7ab4---18016367703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9dc5516bfd---56285744764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/manuwabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e68b3b635b---68925050016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1afd164458a6098b4b583362d25b454b/rokepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210512104503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449c666b2bc77e2d5b7f3a42913cf585/73579185785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=normal+urea+and+creatinine+levelsPDF 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_off0000f889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF889 10672 bytes
SHA-256: f040763f1453be8ef6d34c550e99541300b1305b9373666b72b48ab5fb6cf69a
font_01_sfnt_off000110f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001290b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1290B 16232 bytes
SHA-256: e9fda953f8cbb86f3b1a402abccea2902b2d744c9e4d0b2c997db56a8116b577