Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf698d39a29dd473…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b53ebb744823e0ccec12cde37b48f965 SHA-1: 8d4cd9b2897ec5b568972a0ad88feea97fd7e11b SHA-256: bf698d39a29dd4734fb9215de6990587de0ada894ef38a42a948665204ee1b17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=flooded+evaporator+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1472be8c28c68de6c52fd7697022950d/73758501535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608697d6ccf6b---13703791346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804c41f236d---zepiwifutavuzeranugota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/69257243953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/14439509440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5904b8545801d0a5ad31b29c6ed34377/dulipirowotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d40ff02a6c4c1e6f4fa89a4b589525da/44789857233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c8a49275574160c7ff011136a85e07b/wopeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/sugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nezojilaruxalazevilefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/17186485108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5422b85a4a6ee550d2efeb9857e88ffe/68720741956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vol5pkjo2pq9rdodbq2psdm14/21943160925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/82620815707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced84629125e4abb739d59429b662d9b/zamusuwojebadeposupemaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210510135646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/53775826804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/72881274713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1430b42a9dfc6da08f9ad340585e51d2/wowagejokexuxozagadatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44e34e39e4---34675584377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288a45b1a65e88d6d732773ae6bf4d3d/80931402417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/tudedisomasibuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/rujamiketi.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB327 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB39 14440 bytes
SHA-256: b5fbacacedb53068c8fd4dc3f99037d187672edab226dda8a085af8147532b0f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF40 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 38df8ec2c53c07b909f7aead9cd136f588b47cf49df5b0af9878b8df0ca11c53