Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf0928fa12eeff75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 08:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 03ed03b2e306aabb7d6767f2fc4c72b7 SHA-1: 5aa87ed2d99e974c15a39c9fa7b2a9e38aa9dabf SHA-256: bf0928fa12eeff75f5a569eb7d440f3fc7ac7903ac4b2ff8cf957d45fc7e160d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the analysis relies on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://zhongguohuachun.com/d/files/julometuperazidepot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7uqp1kklvqmip140ks01f2d8l0/zimosizorowoxatitogipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--90aweabvm.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68300054412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/fesinusinilukanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/63508428640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griswoldremgmt.com/uploads/files/lumiposabirofilawanagusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/wujunibafogadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/58083328898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/gutufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s01e3nnnfairga1kppl5dh21n3/jemopowopejiwawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i75df7rf6r8ipg6rhb2tfdls47/favamodebigiwivudamaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/47464579495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q475eevo1tftf9br11lc80s71/36345088117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021052510381950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c30a0f5770fb28ff4ad610ddc62175e/poguxaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8702d4566---delelamazijokufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bea38d1de---zurigirezuzalategimiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b12d318155894f927cf824ba78eb4e/77291116831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/tomusarasotazasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kufkid0elnkd16ektfj9c4u2aa/kugukonobenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a69f5c14f---57586273149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/ramedelibarirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b6cf217dd8---85192344414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/wilepexivuwudefekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f44382195d8cf95e3056ac25565cf03/92265200657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ibrahim+y%C3%BCksel+otomatik+kontrol+%C3%A7%C3%B6z%C3%BCml%C3%BC+problemlerPDF 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_off0000d7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F1 11480 bytes
SHA-256: c3ed88a59c12b1eb56b53bfa7f6be589fcc794db755f9d5db8317e487f4c0cca
font_01_sfnt_off0000f229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF229 19048 bytes
SHA-256: 524f075ea548624ea7ab3028f3d1144da446d6977f64e4d2c9595691712ca03d
font_02_sfnt_off000120b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1