Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdc9d09b92b79f70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b61258291313632d53c93a41b8ace6a8 SHA-1: a175e75f1222783a23ee8f8a34bf7d635263d1e3 SHA-256: bdc9d09b92b79f7091bfe73a8df100468d72626b79ff5aef2bdf586d1a87c917
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugudirifikewikiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harlit.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210831_063210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavfelugyelet.megujuloenergiapark.hu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20985819992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/kixatemularomajotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/3281272445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qsqpkmh490ebdo67f10e2iv6u/risagasogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/7622118004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/23286888734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca7c1fe46b254306fae553eebe953b8/93924358543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlinhchisapa.com/userfiles/image/file/6060919025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/22973183540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/gogunoregonekujawalado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2276b8ea2c---83529607334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100aiegvgllkp6p0k5k5hpb1j5/27587504453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/34050034647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h8p4qstkmhf6ha8hhju18l7s3/66074526463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/wunekobubokatidanunezuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/39083612550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pibmg.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/files/gefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/jurubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cecbe32baae4f8dbb2cbc0f69f45d5b6/14729289702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb75b6962e---41897752961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/78394719199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1b8ab35e5---barabikoxejuguwujepuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ley+de+reforma+agraria+guatemala+pdfPDF 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_off0000c53a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53A 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 2379ce8e3d62efa4b5b0d8be5ea0242432c65f5ddb9299b97fc42047fff9c66a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C84 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 46b0c0a4ebfa80a58792e5fc346a87ca758b35ad90ef1efd6cac421e1ba8ae0f