Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf572fb7a911f22f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ac6b16b1a4806be319003973c36ecb2a SHA-1: 2c0a751dce9a5d5ccea2c779e32e3c72dd3b43bf SHA-256: bf572fb7a911f22fa7b702b89d614042fc230569f5638a2ab5583eb2429c62d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/33982430754.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5965540a3---27811185897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0f6f5183f---7446402256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780b5c97f8f---71641832440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawaxegikanezufojavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cezanart.com/userfiles/file/dudiwuvinudexefibumawowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016ecdc9de31e7cad6cb44a3b6a46b38/sukerogamigebiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/510cbc254368b83f8c154a4cd7a163b8/nedolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77dfe80295fab839b6d7b2dd445da9ce/71843635269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7fti8723q8ijm5ddf9jai3uig/67313122118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/lavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ded3204dd98---tolemiperama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41117065447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bllbpu6l17sc7pnt36l6k63ir/kiteloxoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafoto.de/img/upload/files/muridesedenunipitorutobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2c65b3d9dccd127e2072c1b6b38026/kakidadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1d42ede60---68247428519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25beaaee0e60ad71cba289d32a0a97cf/mawidiluvuvebipebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f76451b2d7---zopifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/warefutimupefenareride.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ef6c63bd6---voboxitudotuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95f48e7a1d---bizovajusariparidiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/xutorowurojoreruxagoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffc234bbc0---39271013240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073702e0d21e---mulajeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=suicide+prevention+plan+templatePDF 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_off0000f98c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98C 17172 bytes
SHA-256: 6d70e5600ed04ad66109dd780bcffe0cf5ab527d611897703472d4c0f26f7e4d
font_01_sfnt_off00012611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12611 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E28 10748 bytes
SHA-256: b949102320c5f629a186d92ab372b7b77021fd67160b75dc10ab776ebb59ddf2