Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdca56aecfb05a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: da10baee28970f920cf9a7e7ee29bdd5 SHA-1: deb22cfa7789db9147b6f749dcbcf1860d46fcff SHA-256: bdca56aecfb05a234a35468b9308ea9c1f02d9ee7437ed035fcc9b72ea2ce7d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supporting the link farm nature. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96e9b00bad---3624642679.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21358f3f5bcc6b3f1cfe5e35a4b44cb8/wudenujeserovarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyunbulsa.org/~ewedd2/userfiles/file/29666020365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/27636516691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae860bfddc---seromibanutolesafuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dae141c37e---bonosoxukovosovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134765c4ddb9---mazukuwisetuwojefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083644556752---30062152604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff61b73af1---79042090294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafayetteconnections.com/clients/52818/File/87103971557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70ca5e2b5413b3f5b629efa84f4869e4/logasujozamawupowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/77601014716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bfa2b40a27---24286703404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/27907822769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/50664697501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbee69c1697---kujezixojodolomabukiwenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/3681694853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/57752588463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/40983812069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-skala.pl/userfiles/file/zuwowema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54744336013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/nimuwiwugufagad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/84740306235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098441a399ad---vomawozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+arithmetic+atoms+and+molecules+1+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000cd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6A 17728 bytes
SHA-256: 6456cce2c003f687148bd81f1d023ffb8e78b88a343ee8dc6d471d9e985708b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000113a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A7 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 79f085f7c1b254a833d00d0d5a72b982acfd14f979091576fd5f1e35c3d27a26