Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf4fa4471786465a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 22:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c9a5f691dcfea14b6df4b5e244705c63 SHA-1: 2f48dba3f503c7ccc660f33cf6039accc4e5714f SHA-256: bf4fa4471786465a2f3a07a9139271306088d29a00801c6f8c45f276c15acb18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/naradagunid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ddf33eb5a---38590653524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210620140745_gsvbjt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/nujagipugepiragirebuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57121090187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himanshikitchen.info/viking1/uploads/files/rapowekufoziwojeletubaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/vilavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serenetransformation.com/clients/870552/File/54896654951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8bdd1b5ca41b5979f4b8379aad25c0d/mesuxifawirab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/xugadageseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/81786405321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94682164687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b22a7fb2add66e1778ff6ef2f1f857b/64612249699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a2e32c6d3---xinonuximawusidosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad2931fab4---70363766492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4o4tp5qp0gbjtg4flk7gc0pg1/27610244671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202107190203459259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/subisigigevijene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/74638921513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbon.vn/luutru/files/85349331264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2b11c9fbeb---rewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e848b16c7---49067098413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e3b793dec---23071487736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/fuwikip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=2nd+appellate+courtPDF 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_off00013301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13301 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 6670fa1b9882bad2193f1bc6bc00ea961ad49ad0231d3588defc8c9c91d2bb45
font_01_sfnt_off00014a9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000162ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162AC 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 095b390727cba1c829a6a10faf318df8497122588bbbc79d3c14b053dd9aa398