Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdd9cdba858cc8d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7d83babd094b9f344f7be5c706e1f1d5 SHA-1: 39ffe1bf7bec08b83d6c196854d016cdfc7f7ec4 SHA-256: bdd9cdba858cc8d1020641dbe69e4d071954b6acd5aa4f3adce16ed0a7044a15
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content through compromised websites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics and numerous unknown URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/86809574462.pdf
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b01b6569e---wujaminegozowakalev.pdf
    • http://burmeseburmilla-allevamento.com/userfiles/files/pevufilalolojiponined.pdf
    • https://vandolderskb.com/images/usr/ganufu.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12897730f1---42811157363.pdf
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/82595309567.pdf
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/gudezunusi.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neul2hnrelhoqk6gd3ht68i4vq/juduvuputufakix.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o7simb19t66g3vhtsciki52u1/tadimasilakake.pdf
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/nalafelunojo.pdf
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/61175565783.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/daruw.pdf
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/dixiginede.pdf
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092727a7c388---zusiwurat.pdf
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/3212364417.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/muwuwewobu.pdf
    • http://imcborivali.org/userfiles/file/mixaxodefovexaju.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c345614b9ee---nolile.pdf
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buxajapago.pdf
    • http://sungder.com/upload/68239853943.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c78357127---10202110219.pdf
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/89612046308.pdf
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/60991713335.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+physics+books+for+class+11+and+12+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012925.bin
728da6b2a945c209cbc0217bceae8611e4c761a1abf01de776749b05ad1cee2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12925 18956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015b18.bin
db94d4f8526b52ea985cec7e365ba5047b13ddd245c1b4a04035628b01788d1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B18 11212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00017531.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17531 16792 bytes