Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf73969b156cc5fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 04d82ccde52652514f0ae05621a50a6f SHA-1: b5a56d3a17ad4c4550df64a2b9a4a3f6e9070424 SHA-256: bf73969b156cc5fdd6297698ea001dcab043c9a33db0cd781404971305ee3f9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous links, including those with 'utm_term=download' parameters, suggests an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites for phishing or malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://anhhieu.vn/hinhanh/file/3821468505.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek5f7vtgm25unk46rbsajmvivu/biwafasuneloxepabagikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379f5ecc86f---ludazuzobinoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/weguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/gizinepebatesesuguduros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613deb7023720---36236292240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/kumitimavemotilomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietmoiquangle.com/webroot/img/files/76758396926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/mober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://explosivedevices.ru/media/file/newetepejuluwawuboluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://think6.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210918043818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilboamedia.com/userfiles/file/laferufezinasujumexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/94471708061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/gexironew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37fe6af8abeb6d99e0bcf6775c12742a/86864818835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/dinos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76492339117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/47105130489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/66782855491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowprinter.com/app/webroot/files/file/66247340970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maxugunuwazazijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/wukuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=download+play+store+free+for+laptopPDF 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_off0000b97d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB97D 15980 bytes
SHA-256: 789fa00fd4e7b770587591f1f9db2bf53e9aa222221f7ba95f6b14a55715125a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE293 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 1d1ac4edcc123ec0484b100c67b110fe607a3f9376ead1093f744ec534c6c6e8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1