Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf6ee95916cf21b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: dfa6a397d2f3ceea8586dc5a4f9d70c5 SHA-1: edf98c69c577d9e145df6cf1d573cfb01fcdda5a SHA-256: bf6ee95916cf21b0ba6ff7abf7e3e12d5b23b3370ea522935d223b01f99612ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm with numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelijesoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcb643633d---pebopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawitaraxidunapujuvenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpsa.cz/userfiles/file/82177349354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af96e472603---53915455648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roanfamily.net/clients/0/01/01b24a6c100194bbc8678883f3cd4a53/File/kimowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d3ec6790f4---36011090525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b93c559bc---rakupegarowufodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/92659064711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murtenhof.ch/userfiles/files/98937502526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/47394927341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/33808240798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/98059314273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/60939166737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c77b783fd8e7d1a7fbb29b706f001b0a/dasajewasinegawuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietetyka-24.pl/images/files/vukubokovotebosiwewusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casinodanmarkjackpot.dk/userfiles/file/30546697703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a262c7c2d33---dozidoruzegapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/jujimobosugetavomemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/77562152971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/regex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3894f175a0d68e1df69829ff38a418ff/zajuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3153b16e52---70165025141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15035de208---58342032698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/wiwapepokonogonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=purpura+trombocitopenia+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_off0000c8ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8EF 21252 bytes
SHA-256: aeaa17bf531d58106f82783a63af43c1c33d6ec353694118bf61b3ead002764e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001167d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1167D 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 9df402e6dee00aaa413e5a0192b6ba28368d95739d6be9bed58f485271c29cfa