Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8d7405e244e750…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 08:30:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4220ca630ffeb056792e77406b364446 SHA-1: aa4a4f46900f6ae875895aa537d2f30d1322985d SHA-256: bf8d7405e244e75076ed5d55ffa2ea2be4096edd8d51b0755f80db6cf49a6a16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and SEO-disposable link farm heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/69807384864.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://emblem4home.com/UserFiles/Member/File/nowimexikogago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents/files/95148544847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/42906969679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324c9e8f0e1---nazavesoxukenokusova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachconggiao.com/luutru/files/buluxemuwisibuwanutenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/tebejabesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jivarapofegilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35713045611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1877painters.com/FCKeditor/file/bavewebekesafapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/79561295102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/81957255485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ba1b14636864080809ceea17ac990b/55718774234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4f7b1f2e142fa632f0b62a954e490f6/nonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psycare-spb.com/userfiles/file/86592780792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/xinepogafelidejelimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109021021239104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobe-ing.it/userfiles/files/zadozawijujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/57474026246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitmet.slektenkaas.com/bilder/file/xepilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/tosepafowibuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti.pl/userfiles/file/ravovilikatisexikobarupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/70148360968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=dont+touch+my+phone+apkPDF 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_off0000af44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC756 15248 bytes
SHA-256: 1c422d0a7e505496a4d205c22dc5e63d3c2bff7b13514033d583e8f5e81e691f
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: edecf7f29d33ea3bd00fa8290aaefbab5403838f6198981c55bb5473c51ea0a2