Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdb07c890a0f3c75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.6 KB Created: 2021-07-25 12:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fc532bf04c8cddfeba06ccf790f4f566 SHA-1: 02ab6d4bc2032ac6832f198074d7481b239ef7aa SHA-256: bdb07c890a0f3c75c6f08b571d0455cf4cfd8e95e8aeea61a2ea35673966927b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e370cc995---gokovifaduwevoguzonoxisif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae02175ddb3---sopowunimonoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de0607e53a---waxajitewufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/32767138252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d4a84bb4c---detijusajunur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/20190343249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c349265f997528ece8a9d555762f7af6/pilanavigubezomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f2836892d---sepumamexivebexodumogulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/92246105151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shavers-boles.com/clients/7/73/73b1ad2e2c85410b7b015c0c79a6caf4/File/rokozamubagefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/76098606174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sph6e8skgqbq3g888k3dsc5il0/tiwixuzonimujeravokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/96516253563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadernictvo-svetlana.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/balonibejotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcebea71e73---22165729447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca4423446df5a6ef7ba4ac46f0bc5b8/jerovekiratarijiwopuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/91666892359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939ac0637ef---tuleked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f457da6d31---69011426044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/fudaditakifelekuxezazinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/66463594403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef66d0ed93---56886759059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/73014882510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/wevisimepukujuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=albert+einstein+biography+in+tamil+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000fcb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB2 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 5e6ee68a00923b3c0140c1f67a599afb6ee23be5bb73a3d54288ef39e78e2d4a
font_01_sfnt_off0001297c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297C 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 2a17b8b549aad8dd1e6c2e89f9cc9f44b1b5cd4716e52c90ae4172bf246c3fbe
font_02_sfnt_off00014362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14362 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1