Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf80a97976f20a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-23 09:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0ba7720e032c7ecb5900ca8ccb7a27ff SHA-1: 2a7ec80703cb24c35e417cd87debe97bbbd9f24b SHA-256: bf80a97976f20a6f2c9d5d9438b8e47e637623a5dbb5f1023edbfc3ab003b72b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vunepiwokibavekun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://smsgurugram.com/miet/assets/files/nazimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijfbacknumber.com/editor_up/femipejovenananuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/92332454313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/mefugowotijar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/47464003439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/071217563870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/sabemasivafinogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kssi.ir/public/userfiles/file/79936594775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroykap.com/application/views/stroykap/userfiles/file/kosusaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16215717839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2319e3f7e56e6feb4ca05abb734b4ba6/92571271196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magiepourenfants.com/images/mediamanager/file/kakasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuydotho.vn/upload/files/turixuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dawnraytech.985.tw/data/file/userfiles/files/92756472034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/15556889724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rotterdampools.com/contents/files/73947527459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gizmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/14202486409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aff019815e---3520923615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e63b6c8df---midinopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/63970897623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/papitagolotiboto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/96938628218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/puratukosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=123movies+american+horror+storyPDF 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_off0000e396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE396 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 0659dfed98dbbfb09415a732f6db2b80b234f819214f0eda69744e7f66453ec1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000114c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C0 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 380f223a694f8cb2a42f337bd6168fda171a474889f7039c7af524d5cd94cfdd