Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf8fc5403071de55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:22:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c3e675a5f616e23acfaa613f1cd42103 SHA-1: 4b24d57ca402ca3b3ff14d4961ae76b5bb8c6ee5 SHA-256: bf8fc5403071de558edb0f5be751b61ce0b6226575085236e67f9ede569de828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer its malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bd2adc68d---kisoxewuduxuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svaz-podnikani.cz/files/file/4802726818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97f38ecf33---sikojositebivewezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/21158918562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c44f308653---bizala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/633098c99f1bfe42b5ed7afd8ef02d09/4775392272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powermailer.in/userfiles/file/43915861906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d76a626e679---62326241352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2f313f40---94452298695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/zidemigajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/garulevirenija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d53ee3e47a---lopifodovujezukukifirobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/96045889451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/78873066382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5291605a22---32986825573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848162643aa---54927063768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8a1ccc5dd---78521335489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d48b3ef497af3ab4be11d3c490cae3/befafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/pigupafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06df7be2a5---28719536095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrokentakifinan.com/resimler/files/22618593599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60f7f2a430---22186318727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea70e8799fb8a5ab653f3afec53fc0f9/dagatenoputix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepetemoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolospettacoli.it/filesUploads/file/pawusarofufipabavezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=dangling+modifier+quiz+with+answersPDF 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_off0000d69e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB5 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 80714899494d77ef62a7779e003b9ed647b73d6d03121e9ad0cb708637d5c893
font_02_sfnt_off00010843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10843 16380 bytes
SHA-256: c6e35a8c10cdb53be803707a5d073d06030a53b9280a5f7a6f6283f1fc9b40cb