Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf49671fc70c734d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-05-06 13:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5716aadbbc0dffba3a9ae5cefdbed470 SHA-1: 37bfd031805ef3d11eb49ff8d9d34e708a5fa81e SHA-256: bf49671fc70c734d5aa60bc85fa667d40da2d70a7e9c29180df21776c13517dc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latest+bollywood+movies+2019++free+hd PDF link annotation
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cf8a27e9ad2735dd505879dcd6a5c1b/71742866406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2b8f8bbe8---gomofam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/dotidavimabenakeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bbd126e76---61129184389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o2smtqrvrpo6hfql1r75r63pl/21703197528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f679a23c4d3a7d025fc182a32f6e878/zivopukaniposolemaritubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848d5e60843---61668151945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a196e247568fed74afe2c35248ab18/zarirolunaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ccc66389b5ffc9e30ddc95e40a339f/vudegugupigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085caff4b74c---dafodidazirinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77710417b87e386b05337cb61f4237c4/jusitakamupavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8d57391c604fecbb4c3269bc06860d/96946231210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608032c54898c---44737013720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210503064314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bf48f2f0c---wuxutapotumadofomugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076987dbde4d---nibasokatozemo.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_off00011226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11226 5964 bytes
SHA-256: e37563971555d3ded0d8c8c0a6f9a4392c1bfcb5eb8f72754843c8df48e266ef
font_01_sfnt_off00012665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12665 12468 bytes
SHA-256: 46b7a3629befdb2d8704abdea32fb68038dbb3d9e77f2e744d404465b61b407e