Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdcdd2b47dba495d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-27 08:51:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0441b8afde37f59d00ecbde6a1a3eb5c SHA-1: 1bdb33f6cf760ae396506d89c07d73c0e9940653 SHA-256: bdcdd2b47dba495d4f1fc078130b9692e5e7db62ad4cf9c7291f2307b3d68a23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mr+jatt+app PDF link annotation
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/kewakugorafomajitewemabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/rilajizaxofopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedding-box100.com/uploads/files/202109241101372555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/45333551543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/nepaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134370d7105e---rinonapafave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/kimawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://privatecambodiatour.com/userfiles/file/jexufodezajoxisesovulafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d531ea95f98da459c1c77216eebedb34/74290080369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ed055c9b43820fff53810e41f297e5b/1091247626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/gilisafatusefubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210906184915_1830385616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/gubarijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/78222368194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupurumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxlustry.ru/img/upload/rudurelogejogiwomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/toporezutanumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlzljc.com/uploadfile/file///2021090316114379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54409649263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repetitorebi.ge/userfiles/files/farodasobilozigalive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfhu6ab4bqv.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dujeresazapewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortocircuito.trialpanel.com/images/Upload/files/2436086559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/926919210.pdfIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBBA 9708 bytes
SHA-256: 6091e6b2e464ea73ca7f5f9f5511676c015a2b085f9fad5a42fdca1fb0b3440b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0FD 20584 bytes
SHA-256: 6acb261c2f4910af50113a72a3ff94da55a82a8e37656115aa483d09b39e19f8
font_02_sfnt_off000106ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1