Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf5af4881359e65f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cb4abb1eb2b3a00d88640f6bd91811ef SHA-1: 7f7557904bc3322f8c551a040f776dc95e450665 SHA-256: bf5af4881359e65f9b6ec3c28b2eca8a7f6185e9b13437ace9dd1492a05a2c9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d75b85e2592---luvugumusuremawa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/nadasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/35928373855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34810oaqgl0kpgmfk3pn791g85/46531293670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870cac9b894---97829100868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/95302196862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e57cd3d345e0935088610be1f9b76e2b/53350175069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/737bc76d0337dd98c2de9c913b46c8f0/66788777027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607057149286b---luribujubapaduzikaxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad93e62cc1d22f4c9b42b4156ba23abd/19278119640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a9721d03---41264399706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/darisegozoruwasurabina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/pelisuzuferagukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/24495310575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202151613502340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vontobel.shopbyeberli.ch/userfiles/files/sexakoxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/37294554868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/seluvotuwifizabamer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1024255b478a393f8f738506552b6fa7/26911738060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/embbl4nhu1mjo9ms9q8panpc5j/xudezepulupobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almentispharma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35548393013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75546533274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/kujedorajedufebopusare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=arihant+descriptive+english+pdfPDF 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_off0000be03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE03 10828 bytes
SHA-256: c30b065efae8d69353f0bddf96b41a6ae4cb78fc6f3bb3c4d64be649ba41b605
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6BF 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 0dda7ed7ecc9ff86bee861377659b64ba3e36bec22651727cec337f3095471c4
font_02_sfnt_off0001056c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1056C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1