Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdf204eb5c28cc9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: caefa1291c3807e331528ae3cb6fd36b SHA-1: 523fd863cf6971b01864f8a472da9642d81a5dce SHA-256: bdf204eb5c28cc9d2727116bc4c455079f21a702bf9f6f34e196cbf3425b25f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a primary purpose of redirecting users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or hosting malicious content. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious nature of the hosted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

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://taociren.com/upload/file/210816015522312502ticztjhp7upc.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/meroposof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/56965832913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/35241492173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmep5cnpdj7e741ckse8863tm5/22359426969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117e8eae7a55---nezenanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29bbf0b9c8ade72344dc2125bfc38d8d/40391693034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0d0fa4908---7868521358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d50da264fc092c39862e1fe91905c0/dofokatobulenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/64536937627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2eeb3bfa8d36073d57d7cb010bc185d/57588646033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqg5dprlam68v1re17ok5b7inf/gewegobejuzoxiwetuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/92584969123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/nanazagowubelowupigepubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/42117270525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609430f5d1dfd---mimediwutabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33add7d18a1829d237383d15f8574dc4/gafokolonusogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1b31bab35---91715893514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc7tdbol471vd0b8becmquh2a1/40488923308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj16cq9hg5cogtend6f4pqumd3/papekuzuxedetisijurevavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmjok92f8si7u5laj2l1nkmu5h/bupareforubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/67747745319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/bibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8cf24748df---vanapevejijibazite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/pupemixatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e323b9326---85003041004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=microelectronic+circuits+theory+and+applications+seventh+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c183.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC183 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 64d41ee9d66a17dde3275aef450924ff3ed7c61d89103cea4b979e6fee30f5d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000db08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB08 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 391e9f5c2f8a178261160a0018289c0d9bca7acd682fd60f30a3c0ff3cf6731c
font_02_sfnt_off0001086a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1