Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf2539e9ff44535d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-06-14 06:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0502a90d6bcb7b1810ed839b5a818307 SHA-1: e997355343fe9bf2cbb551d9b4b107e5c3e82215 SHA-256: bf2539e9ff44535d54d922cf24c97f55064386e92a9cc07748e3f5ec9bdfc35c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, possibly delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baal+veer+returns+all+pari+real+name PDF link annotation
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/60555399200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jajpht6jfks1mbataobiorh4k/41948718267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081279a059de---68043941315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/19717017772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2ro9onjnahtfdj5bi6es1fp04/52355503484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07286cf5854a0231887b948da178fc37/vajuwubevobaxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/46715325248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2bfce6d83af2e064f73a994ae08e385/xenapabapupoxegojalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99c4e6ab62e3a15bba8f38055a106892/85036126335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nng0kg9laufmlphsdmnofe932l/12991266089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/51983544160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c91c0f546---pizaniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/totemuborazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab9db5be43---sirogajutenifuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB6B 5072 bytes
SHA-256: ef83dd5e346b8cf9d22ca655b90b363f2ee40f7ad06242541869deabfd4f2347
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9D 11152 bytes
SHA-256: a9ed1fdc4fea2031ad7a9351415d3b1a1158b7a228aaa4b430102ad82314df2e