Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bddabdf90620d12e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:31:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6b71c8072ac81792d3e715980b73fd2b SHA-1: 46cc9895048fbfaf4950d6cde648116898f33213 SHA-256: bddabdf90620d12e1e8355ffdaa0786c740c511b8e1e3b0b2db426d0eddf49f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate the document acts as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. These links are likely intended to lead victims to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65b56519a1---nenen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/90910688987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99262540562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/waxebokedenodaziposotakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/ramopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753bc39b9b4---nisekemopafaloxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b82eab9e4dad7d30a431081d892e298/93994478734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itssilvertime.com/clients/2/24/24efe347a73a8ce028152bf895bc11a7/File/28072002630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ac172349a---28653750106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8ffdc9c691---zapetumemesitozagotoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4745d7fef---5949324903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/7161607412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/58009199490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/keginijiteferutopotalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/nalokoxuluwaradavum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystar.net/filespath/files/20210812190422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtrinhnhaviet.vn/upload/files/wodovotabesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9d7afede525f58080017627251e7c5/80543094761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607336e306846---fojusomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd81cfea701---xigonogusanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e25b79573---wugovizebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/76101684683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/40715853334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/fenugimulegajijunanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=birds+of+chilePDF 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_off000109da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109DA 10260 bytes
SHA-256: cc2afe3442deaa32c557f74a5df42b6299c650b93941a020e99e9805119b5806
font_01_sfnt_off000120fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FD 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 8ddf75dbc0dc40900f26cf2ff2776d7c5bb07bd1ff4199ecbd2b5061b2972189
font_02_sfnt_off0001543a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1543A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1