Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf9604be559eda36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:46:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf840f4d9ffd35f02f1053d0b32baf31 SHA-1: 77c19b09a3997ccb64de97fc9e518622657c729c SHA-256: bf9604be559eda360422e4ba78b0555657c257557e488a33774dd1e17772f03d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dgjst.com/upfile/file/zomelopesuvosuzuzenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/jejosevimilexekenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/toxoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0650534b1e---lixudimejibuxemiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbhdom.eu/userfiles/file/gusemuleralidoxabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristorantebiscione.com/userfiles/files/33175487329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/76692979046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/tijezirulisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/54657041342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/favotiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slkuang.com/v15/Upload/file/2021819164997365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://combrooncom.com/contents//files/1876944887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/11710122797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/62055970614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlh.vn/storage/ckfinder/files/sobesexemizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f726262c7a---90005388623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duproject.com/uploadEditor/files/61390039059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-miyaco.com/img/file/2021627191549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/topamitewakatifefara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb56fed8c927faa593a1a7827cdf1ca7/82396663183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dfca24666fcf110cc51484a81358ed7/57066133053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/92909409266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=nuclear+power+plant+objective+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CA 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 85e2ea17f447d1c64a5ba51a2a67bd02d22ff6026c17e35d7e83f621dd148eba
font_01_sfnt_off00010fee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEE 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 151372c0dfb4f6e96025a235ac252aaf36f35f15a24f4809e0a0d36cf9264efc
font_02_sfnt_off00013ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1