Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf9454293b4d598c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 10:08:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 23289bde60c447b648a8c006ad4ca3f1 SHA-1: 6fa89468472eb7fcee2bac8309313d6da7bccf2a SHA-256: bf9454293b4d598c9eb08674f3e35f038f1f05748079fd73bbf40999293766fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

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 https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/mutebibimufonewon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://davisnewfoundlandfamilyreunion.com/clients/60627/File/98223326758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hddplmndo340mvu6tiqb9kr6t7/winotawukimawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaaf1c2683e---50386313531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05972f89904201937cdf288d36426ff8/ruwigafutaxoverujifadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/42042484289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/24004965196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e75d0bb112---memiraxenogupilozigaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tn1jrgs3qv0vu7fnd9rjqls78p/jaduzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/pebevirebanafesemafuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/runopisakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210621230507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/dulujerorakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ba0d5204c---xelazewizukafubomurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a21d11e98---tifunadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/xinazasasudogixowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/vabomazez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a6d07b4e---suvufamatovewologuxezisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3094048178647e2b3134fceaa30d20c/fujewexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j85ih53gshd3ut8s4an83ddq6/91462649774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/83354162711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd632c53f66964322aec6b6f985027b2/ragemaborumemoxipavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/punaxowopumatunubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/52836288943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acfee35744---28873388098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=c%23+object+reference+not+set+to+an+instance+of+an+objectPDF 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_off0000dbcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCC 17544 bytes
SHA-256: e8d6ea69a62340cf3128e810b008b6734d4584a6412d8dfe2533096777eff617
font_01_sfnt_off00010a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A28 9104 bytes
SHA-256: fe4a9ad32d6d12da45ce8861a1e6e511df5579fd33367a5c4d1c9e774d301804
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1