Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdbc688276266d04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-15 17:43:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 50646872fe33af7b0e7bfe79898e0d2a SHA-1: 1d5b7eb128b75e6a7755376d1ff106e191c2e4b8 SHA-256: bdbc688276266d04b9b9c9f84e27b38cc167c177ee151d7858bbc1f810382d7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10daa36bafffca5dcbff9ba3c5d25d71/bajakejulovijomapajutug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611185784bb9a---61901692496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/10351327475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ab8a7c1ea---gopakoxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/7458645170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/8235233731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/53165753746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgju314s7lgujq6cfbammrtv4q/vigavikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/femuridigudagiluteral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/buwosixapejizijipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/mupegaxuzajejudanesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05879e4ecabfd518ee27d918f75521d0/wodoxalol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuvefune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/xuzidupiwimigifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d1172d5d---dusasogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a1799067d---14407942693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31b8d0e5c8---gaxemonezipajijowafivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48a02e2ae8---73276155756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50d2e7e4f6---73211227626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/93840148762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/sorosanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=douchebag+life+unblocked+full+screenPDF 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_off0000eb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9E 16944 bytes
SHA-256: f66cdc134e46c24670aa37e8a3ae5fe0aca8568bdd899e73f87e6915e653ba3a
font_01_sfnt_off0001178a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178A 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 4e7728e4e172e86d1707fbf9bd51b7a6723882abcdfe850d347053eb6464b1e6
font_02_sfnt_off000130bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1