Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdaa08b94f0c94a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 08:32:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: e48573e3ec4458664e66ddb7d8f9793b SHA-1: 27f1deb3834f7d67ad50d8ac196d45bda6bc2665 SHA-256: bdaa08b94f0c94a27d13d0e1cc69aace93ad28aea9c14760641001039b9996ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to host malicious files on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed8ecca821---wixidejuvumexejadabeba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d0bfa1fd6---mimilulavumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/96622059825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/vifimegovazavulivepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b320e151758---vokirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/meler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m75ea75jv5o7kfn055pf7ckl18/dedodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a896127bd---dewumiluvigazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/78522966620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e1d10990e227ca9ad0872306838384a/kugidumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/toxutukepudopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3857e208c3---jogokitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088962de0452---mobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/27732831355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0bf183685---birosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/26159846977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/zoderolulalujago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc11ojl2bc7fm1s7c3jdq4ct12/xisurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf373a695---repex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/xozilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=mechanical+seal+assembly+drawingPDF 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_off0000ebe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F2 16188 bytes
SHA-256: efce9c53ed91fe0c26b405d0522da45f807d8c482af626e17c762b9b26ef21e5
font_02_sfnt_off00012de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE5 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed052356a5bef668901b415aab4eed7e38a5d45e0d2e53e752c70379f9a189a