Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdcd0db7b9f9f8e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 07:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b7368a7e144fb9e93530e5a014161aa2 SHA-1: 4170777f11a6b555429985c19913c6225fa73179 SHA-256: bdcd0db7b9f9f8e5783cb3a0f54b113cca6c9040c8af73c153e8d33ecd88ca32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=ester+4+reina+valera PDF link annotation
    • http://ydis.kr/userfiles/file/171218219794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c1c97b165---61425763209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021562250573180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamerica.net/clients/873634/File/gekikejefikokujekudig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608394c9748c1---jogave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/68510762925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/202161812806895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/mesipiforaduzikeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/gelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/saguruwegalifulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd646a0bea---38162695092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3a970bfeb---remofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/sizuwevepevoteguvafolola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53efe3eb04---kegosufepiguneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1aeb2bb70ca57a91f8b200fda0d072d/68657025682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a074537313---zexegotilopanogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893a644ea15---kominur.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_off000195ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195CE 4784 bytes
SHA-256: 982cbbd00bf3daaa2485cfc5ef479f9d9a39ee85436b7f40d7404f5b593b2ef2
font_01_sfnt_off0001a62e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A62E 12384 bytes
SHA-256: 7ca102aca2f865fb09381025a2862982da68289eb60c37649ae8c03796bfc792