Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdaf73f17512fc3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 22:55:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 15bae77279cc74de30c4db6c6cc7da02 SHA-1: 2ab1ca099d970052050800270958c71068c73da4 SHA-256: bdaf73f17512fc3e61ff1a08e4a4fbd9dc9e3edcfe0c946002d37fcbaaa04574
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on potentially disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, is highly suspicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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 https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/lupeve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ad4169dca---bilivadupusavamutozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f58a33d20a---51343287901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/302nv5lp2j7i62kl23st3al52q/9158673345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/davemawoxurinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents//files/zifizejisikebuvowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/zekumigipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/41502749170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/ledokunepufikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/vediwetedaworupoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/misoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/pemukijepivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitymattressfactory.com/admin/userfiles/file/penanuvafamopawitanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/8029070477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/zukozaseritobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siembra.me/uploads/files/94985295912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/45471094260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888cac37d5a---rizurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/024f51fdbc307811d7daeafd353631ae/laxibegolijitiniboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/sutajodagevesazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d440102e7983baaa61b41649513bd2/37274514685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c866031cb---3354932330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/065465cb7d908dda12b872bd07aa5e19/2680131105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=azimuth+in+astronomyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11041 19452 bytes
SHA-256: 4ad4b455acb3729ad65278735cd19ea6859045b12bb14a7edba55a30cc286ce1
font_01_sfnt_off00014466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14466 10448 bytes
SHA-256: d6fd061b66b1c41cbb0f0037a61259b0b1ef1f00817a8ce6f121399eea6896a3
font_02_sfnt_off00015bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001740f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1740F 17596 bytes
SHA-256: d66eeef0de29203c5348b99e7083f5978c2d3b8f9bfb151e562dca877d8f2828