Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf0b45b093de7ca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-02 22:24:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cbf9334dbdc5b14d302ec61755cf9b29 SHA-1: bde726d65c4200a527122eb726de898b5912c101 SHA-256: bf0b45b093de7ca49a4c0c6adb44810101d6dc65486b67efb17b5c7f0e2b30d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be to lure victims to these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://lawngo.net/fckfiles/repanesenorekaluzazat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764d6a1a255---86071798863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/11382874960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohjdvbtfo9mij56d70hiv57lsv/fepadipipamubaruxokukage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b8a6a251102---letosesulefolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecandrychow.pl/Image/files/kesido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610305f62b00a---18003931402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/gosinuwokifiluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846374997a6---sobupukoletipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterani-pushkino.ru/userfiles/files/77474442096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b9122925f---38498609411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/77737626306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5apan1elpgcncapii970knuhs/75304286098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/31798262932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rd71dt8qp50q382emjuflccp92/sodariturajakevidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32c557e1af810b444876d9525228da55/sagabazinadevoganu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6813b8799ab892a3d2fcfa591bb75242/lowopoxuxafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3827690ee---doveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b413557ac48---winixevisilaliguvozuredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/jorinafigumiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/mifujixubifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/17227389755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9875407de3---dovefemetadawesafojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=blank+sheet+music+pdf+bass+clefPDF 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_off0000d56f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56F 17340 bytes
SHA-256: a088f2988ae330a40a80b90d0346e83b2a1776c8ba504ccaeb5ac6622e2f0e9f
font_01_sfnt_off00010283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10283 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 836c469440eef1b05e1aa77b9b218dafc013fe5f740db43257e8a118b82e4b60
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1