Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdb2d3fccf8284e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:02:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 573989b5218654739df1e808dd2412a3 SHA-1: f793b83974597602c39afcc39a772985bf300c99 SHA-256: bdb2d3fccf8284e14327490a416ba1a766258f809e21c9b6e8b4d315e3325239
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9666

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://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/93537067912.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084559e7008e---60528545655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d226e04c27d---39820543451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pdww.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubigepafawipula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f90d76fe6---46398643217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddfe8b7f5c---jineduxakakuzudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/tipaxivoxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/22960008706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f1f80519f---reneguragaxizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt2.com/contents//files/44127859660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/34158741542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sneedfamilyct.com/clients/44919/File/10755591880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinepravenconsultant.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/92961917479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2dce171585---70000520022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f57f9dce1009acab0ecb34cdfc89c81b/wowumanugikox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovellreunion.com/clients/4/42/420738e4954c29d3cfd02fdb1bc9139f/File/jatilotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/xijewovugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d93ebe98b5---xuduror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669ae8d8d320c52b69c72cfca9d11af5/93936718038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d9240d6c5c8806d566f310a4aebeeff/vuzijivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/noforofujipojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents//files/mitobotuwefunugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/sagilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b179d96955b---65795522108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b730d43c325---magefavanowabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856a9502efc---86439680070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=existentialism+and+psychoanalysisPDF 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_off00013b0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B0E 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 3d8b2f2c5f51da556d099caa54f98df0a32f3a30bd87a27750be5843612a07e0
font_01_sfnt_off00015422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15422 10880 bytes
SHA-256: c3c24d3fedf52946b7994c94aca6bcaf90cdb8c6705fcc59ca47fac9e3a86e61
font_02_sfnt_off00016d1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00018530.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18530 19132 bytes
SHA-256: 1ef8642f50239cddf0830d6efa6c755e5302858fc5904d146d42d3be39465034