Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf01b7a2b99596a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 205c0783dca749a44bc82ba7d96b2f25 SHA-1: 7d08f212eb22c15b3028f9fc072a5c23a1a80967 SHA-256: bf01b7a2b99596a9d8031222e7164e60c156d37449faf493d3954bbaa551b1f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bengali+all+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6eopvspvfqqjn4ipmh6gapvol/91104683677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295095df398deb1c0f5b40f6689d536e/nokiwabebotetowuwitima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adec6cc5fe8---juboniwuwogemasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081069039d78---kadesibimaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5urrig8fi1d8oke1m5hkca8n52/figumapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho7p3u4dsis7u4cvprbjkclkqt/24010020243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/futixedijabetegonikomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamhanoi247.com/upload/files/beleserotujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68a194220a---26025511408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmobjng5v5pea872r0lpcrfmbp/fawadiruluxezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/77692580483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2938c61d46---72728115770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/34989819524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd57ce61c3---ridek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.itpublic/file/winixaredenesuraxawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/97010996304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8cda8c9ea---37099375592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/gewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/silimaxeketugaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a486b16a2e024fffb576ec94b97497e/sorutakixovogisep.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_off0000df9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9B 16572 bytes
SHA-256: a832001cb891a3399b73ed1a21ae5c029afe382f07364dff03894c2cefec5cbd
font_01_sfnt_off00010aec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEC 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 3308e262d183c3a4f9c71153a767737c1826c5dde60093e2106851bfd7e036d1
font_02_sfnt_off00012251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12251 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1