Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdca2c11bc277382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-06-14 05:48:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b03ff4d84c0a874beaa5ff6b22312c94 SHA-1: e5b122ccf0e700adea9165f9ab2593607f86a0bf SHA-256: bdca2c11bc277382e06bd044f400fee20293626ea3179d2aa09d3674397efbfc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. This structure is characteristic of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=network+security+mcq+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://e-photo.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85800606934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heibldr.hu/FCKfeltoltott/file/sokelatijozisinaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c34d7be6d---jabisogolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/56482356616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nep575635g9h7a0nu6016sdrcg/90865667348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b1b72d247733eac39b9c16d680b37b0/xiforupasukigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c691c6b1842---99520992059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bb61fc5fe7948b0903b8da7f65bfc15/nigenopuxibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a708bf9636a---22221478424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b34f129b2d48ecc776db681cfe26bad/mojuvebasinesetepezexusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083005cde3a6---gepuxopevigifiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5fcdb4d97---32410023436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/javaxugewojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murderescape.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94fbeac77fc563992b117b0731d31877/fawuxavulobuxidolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/29943128920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c05c133cf8c80a7c16988660ba2554/pepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28e17658aa8da6e64b9b0c2f211cadd/64803425725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce69e84ea9---xadukudajufajuliridad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/bazemekegupuvujomakojina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 98cf3d2d7473ab033d0b425be2cb70293c1fa777b6fdf8cfb0bc33a433909fb3
font_01_sfnt_off00010492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10492 10520 bytes
SHA-256: b85f655ea836a3b11f5813b46940b91889fc9ecd460e9d89bfd760619f320855