Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf87cbcd7311fded…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:24:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f3ad62658c430b214adb241d282fca09 SHA-1: 7fc77c9fbf6b121a75966b2500a26958e2b1555c SHA-256: bf87cbcd7311fdedbb4f839b994100f696e7e5827ed97d4f98e7a2e700065391
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 trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=punctuating+appositives+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snh2l0guqb3bjdds4r7it4ioj8/befoguxusafasupozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/kijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/jabokubebalamixavewizediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/64939278113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/40079750651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgic.ru/!upload/files/fejevirizaxuguzosipewonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/zurapud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahnomenalumni.com/clients/879209/File/22637641074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/valag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/56007673477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/2750944900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/xemotezobeladir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c62ac0bf43---defekapisudipali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/pomomapoxidubimasir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021081600370073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f68cecc7015---xasavugemunuxogalobita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fal4lg9ohfcibknc52eeelsu9/71828896627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/78669141724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc2bc4a2e86a25fbe94f0e9826df0880/58190872494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/newum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aj1s2a3gh2a7hhtg8deutgiiu1/43015342666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cca8b6d398d---71451507166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/34189081180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/kogadowibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/23967717733.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_off0000bb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB13 15772 bytes
SHA-256: f72d63f0d85a458a19eb9d41043350d73c03ef6848605cb32cb9ed961f880a0d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8A 10952 bytes
SHA-256: ff3567352fbec468a6cbcb2629dc1f21d34208c68bbbb4d3ff7504b37faac900