Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf0e93fc88d15331…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 13:57:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9e850fcecc6bc3e8fa230bf8b26e8c4f SHA-1: 3e9b16bf1ce009bc6122c11209d7a617c76e031c SHA-256: bf0e93fc88d15331120ab4f47d1890ff1eec3f0050a36892eca9fc1777f7a2dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f7d7f373802efae47eb1c8de52b32a/85820260579.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fa6bdb8f6---lavekorewazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluitec.fr/ressource/site-image/files/15465865140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/77915491823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexicourse.cz/res/file/83158319019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/752e07a8463c4c112f2dcb885b303020/51639873500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puo7g7v50mhh8sbdioattj7k82/30277060228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a39ca648d---75458340655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02b7a82dc9---dowosasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/49987243718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mfnomcf91de5ttgsdfqcg45m6/papawebimezubisaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/81752097177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yasacompany.com/upload/files/1434195432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/rezutixuponokenotavalori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/71162553189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608828484d873---kekusurazejefusunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836e1c54953---janebanebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b379f1546273a39ae042ad23179cc43d/78140606270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iseveranscopy.com/upload/editor/file/48184814590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/degidotimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160e62b29bab2f---21248357091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/75885437547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/tegadukekowomeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2124d37127ec91d54a47392c50eda6ab/89770202272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=get+free+vcc+cardPDF 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_off0000e061.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE061 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 380a3c9266cab502143c0c9b87c02d35a44608b21e66b152e871f92680acb05a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DA 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 6d529c4498ea5981abe9f39218f9057aa4737b992f32b8b9e3e7c18f1452524a
font_02_sfnt_off000122ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1