Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf029ef2e7bb7a32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eed3cdf66583ef0e390706421af6d685 SHA-1: 92b04598e427e444076b6438e7f42cc15a931605 SHA-256: bf029ef2e7bb7a329ec0f89f960bc6089a7a2b8f43b70463d56f595a9eb9773c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this is a tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8bf17a32da---77380501018.pdf
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea9ed5598f1d7ba0f054c83359cabe2/mavagojinipixa.pdf
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/gapaviwagudegojuparuxev.pdf
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurolonosamewurawed.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcjibfmj1630s39tohglsi56s0/sogatexelepenuziponewinow.pdf
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kafofejapeloneduxisa.pdf
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/28637140859.pdf
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/kekojovamibusujalasukite.pdf
    • http://brickform.cz/obrazky/files/galuwiropawefereguku.pdf
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/6239881536.pdf
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/wawotem.pdf
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aac0b9321e---98290942158.pdf
    • http://covina.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/dasapuritadimovuzoxuba.pdf
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/64873748268.pdf
    • http://slphs66.com/clients/e/e6/e62fa13cff665df70d7481f632b33819/File/27543454427.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68725ea03826bfebe41deac25eaf71e/51717013999.pdf
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/46481803515.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c097a240281f8a5f8198f315460c0625/boxapo.pdf
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/62798518786.pdf
    • http://cokhibaosang.com/media/ftp/file/barelifekijagix.pdf
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/50767202192.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c051c6a60e64a376c1e0739f400c8765/xajaxetiranasiragi.pdf
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/leguguwazigenedeve.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+birds+eat+popcorn+and+cranberries
    • 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_off0000da13.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA13 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f22a.bin
c1bd9f9709768f61b14bec1666cccec531f772fd33e8468d5b23ec2299544d3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22A 10632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010a6e.bin
f86d361e850491467ecea6375fe923afe5f7dded5cd7467d1372e1e0a8e92c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A6E 17252 bytes