Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8ae36b377d1dcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5b1ba7d8b086df6c7d0b9e3e656ee6aa SHA-1: 08afc149985b66f935cf1302da90ae4eb992647e SHA-256: bf8ae36b377d1dcb826f6eb6b67e1949d80534e40341d5b714881af317a324b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to harmful content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9895

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://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efeb989c96187ecefb8185a22054afb2/tokikaxekudedosapodepupe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/12262852835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vgpi8cogcnj2nr7r54ltfs0d1/lixanipupefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/jutadijepujeluzofoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f142b93c5---97011004450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/974790bac163b9a3ff5038800cfb6192/13527888562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/98918561291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/dawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/bisinovedapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17a1880383---14225163289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/13091479113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/73481172692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/fonofula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/lugabakuriwakunisola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/nonomibarusuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be42871a59f---68036449146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/mubovasatofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuworawidunisigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0171127f4---62667074914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victoryelectricalsupply.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6966633312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b289232c25d---21878220080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609300240ec1b---27348037690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65fbb9ac58---21503109953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08d44af7e3312655a13c3d17b30d58a5/zuwegunisatedete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/36527852514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+young%27s+modulus+of+steel+is+twice+that+of+brassPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000102b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B4 18052 bytes
SHA-256: f496c4b16559c9bbf46697b4e9b01be1e286f056428e9bd793ff473fc7a97e61
font_01_sfnt_off000132bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014ad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AD3 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 950d1d35313b951d8bcead0b6ebba9b9badd5bbb87a1efb19600858dc5aaa9f5
font_03_sfnt_off00016547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16547 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c