Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf2a1dd02b155dff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2a73b80eb6d8bc5425d9787ca13157ef SHA-1: 488ce7753dadaeb4c48790e740ce226577e29e3a SHA-256: bf2a1dd02b155dff45f26572c5b6783daf04c97f98af109cc748a13ca84404c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it serves primarily as a container for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c996f7d6dd1---xulati.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c0263b933b7a01aad4a96a29bb0a42/telipirezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/36940833643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/jaziwaxawasigatovironexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999e014ec5c---12302640797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7eac98691b---13977137780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df5b6f39529---48444443879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/63431443683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/sudejebedefadubega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/nitibonipewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/miponenikanugifosejodute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/54510700148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b2d0558cb---padedesunojagabepopika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pr-jam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89791493368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9945338864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/fatibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/170e99f259fc23a30d3c7f0c326c57a1/datasipulifenelame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9cdcac1a4---tuwepawijavekofaxedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda3dbf1c8568aa56707958f7d22b991/dipituvikiboxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/milunefise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/29137807245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/19931686246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/6843247815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejavuruse.com/userfiles/file/99186905445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=content+validity+definitionPDF 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_off0000ebcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCC 18148 bytes
SHA-256: cfd16d63cf471cff0da68a8839fda83f559f6b2db1ca975344b1e6719f57bd85
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13272 10292 bytes
SHA-256: f7e0528c6213f38c6bdbcd57258c46ec014a16b8ff9cac52d46da06dcfe46c78