Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdc382409d277505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:25:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: deb7bbc231a01cdfb15eef6fe08d612f SHA-1: 7bd2d305696c89366cb92eea8a131225fb3b47b8 SHA-256: bdc382409d277505f959cbc24f8a94d8d1be47b8adb8a13c9be2574270c848eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+bunch+of+papers PDF link annotation
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/13659656865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eprggvt6o8odhpsgn7vm5sqese/bimikogijaforamimegexota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82df06b5badaee2d06b0223fe3210d71/99924965945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4ff059962---3299095942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/lijuzazafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/mepadade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873b4ea6bbd---96407794524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f05611ab5---meneruvazegukimiwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qsjp1pc6gjit08lkphb99j78qe/76511289034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c174d17fb419755bd24de62d424af9f9/zikesilomomozemirukolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbbb9e81ac2---kagorateruful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6eu436jlp4vl7kjolldupbmma/danekusawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/tajobopavotidefiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5919798dc---92833695198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabigarekupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents//files/47644159385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f195904db5---65795959899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fabp4uff3tq59744rdjii390fq/6575533291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezipusuzamorozibesofaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20c23dbbb152f2243d09f67fff8b7d31/67487628437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/nusafopekuxeruzenekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2183d3f645---bexoginojarifetinubivibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b3c036e68---86094344172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/tuzinetazozisumavojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wezeras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1In PDF document text
    • https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-young-girIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84C 10560 bytes
SHA-256: ad1f1e7b39ce41d506b5a6864f710ecd77c4e1275b8658f93206e63978fe727c
font_01_sfnt_off0001101e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1101E 16316 bytes
SHA-256: b9fcc6163860745f11d28571f6b65b567375fdde0b6bc4cf2bbd646232efc71a
font_02_sfnt_off00012610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12610 19196 bytes
SHA-256: 958362fe0b8f9992e2b8e952e7672d13925cdf6e93325dfca4d5540dc926b387
font_03_sfnt_off000158f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x158F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1