Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf7515feb9148370…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 11:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e613734fbfb0d79e20488c15262ddc18 SHA-1: fc08372be9f18da7d9144ef6f7f05573bb552ccc SHA-256: bf7515feb9148370aecb932dad399dcd3802a1e1514dc4bbbfb155a785f04437
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the overall heuristic profile points towards a malicious document designed to trick users into downloading further payloads or visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=math+olympiad+grade+7+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/46021420113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fd99bec37---wutojazolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/lutagatimosewuvapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/46242814177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca85a71805a144a750a32d46fedf79c/55646335354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/boden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e5a017e94---93253399469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de648d731b77ff68499db1964269001/madudugedubexojotifumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aed51ef38a9f36014b8b20928aecd80/1598000757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/nulepevonexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/69458058143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f29ebbb54e26347b498d076ad9526c/96555356476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2tn94ra85lpurqissga8emiu35/xojodaxilajarevexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecb1726d60---fesikawirilutafudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF018 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 04e9f89e34be478f39deab74199aeebf4cb9f440b9cbe5dbe4a9c96c4c4fb73a
font_01_sfnt_off000102a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A6 12440 bytes
SHA-256: 6908ecffcce47901ece9b10846b25797cd5bbc0dcddb437e51e813f95efe1bbf