Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf5a66f17d29ed9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-18 04:43:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 56cc4b7e3bcd9f33cf7a8af26512438d SHA-1: 25537473fe5be0decedc6547cae079ee34535ddc SHA-256: bf5a66f17d29ed9b8594ae4ca74d033784a1ff39d2c1c8871dab04e8d1e6bb0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The heuristic firings indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest a lure for downloading an application, potentially leading to further malware infection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aaj+tak+news+app+install PDF link annotation
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b92df73528b9d1dde6f767aba3958978/76085778114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a28cd99c4ca---bapowegikalisaratejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1dff920777a30f9686e2c1ce53715fc/lasiwafefidonopepokivudar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/27404538046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d0fb83b44596d78f5433563b536ef0f/tatejegotopesobexizobife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f73cdb221a---23127199841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794f22c9ef7---9087922870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a488002f15b---30449468115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/81037435191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751589a0847---zafaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746bcd5bb45---vobunatanuxuraxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/kuxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75c14f6a4d49e2be91fde029e9acc79/gadovigox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79e899dd57---denolerukoxibenumaseled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE818 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 8c55e59824c76a182811d23aedfc77579a71630ba71d164d45c42847ee303585
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90D 4376 bytes
SHA-256: d99d01523b1a307b502d6255d17f7bb7a688d758d526ef68b9b4573dd47a0f26
font_02_sfnt_off000104ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104EE 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 21e443dae3e302b6e4a9305d886341b626410dd04be6616dc26eb2f89663a96b
font_03_sfnt_off00012aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA4 9368 bytes
SHA-256: a5a2098ef6514e61a0e2cf0558ad7e2cb4672307f4128d848d6ac219ab1368ba