Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf989e6695dfe74e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-05-02 00:53:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 308b0665406780f7e15b5dd1b8d40eaf SHA-1: ea3005a2dd62cb9276e1a2bb090b5d7d0d1227e3 SHA-256: bf989e6695dfe74eda16c81240ecec9f69bf83d51defae66393fcf7e295fd461
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier flagged it with high confidence. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or trojanized PDF, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5da29n58pklrs1bd851ciuetn/zisiwatik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ff46d7c2f0e16ef3a06b7eca808871/30071565755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/watagelufilerudedazipada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d550e3589d---17437501119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7508ea2b9---garikezibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923ccb2b37ff4bfb6ba4a92a0e1b622f/70174439143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f2cc801d9---95928898438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35e1c5c3d---sawewifekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43a56afed9a81a31f6e94aa2a8f724a3/15713057619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8333ac14e---40202620074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462290be65d91a770957804d81f65d7c/zuzeduluxogoxaxazekijela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072322b30099---buboxapizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785561aa95---26821777096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+fonts+for+powerpointPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DF 5200 bytes
SHA-256: c1bb1f086ca63cc018038a8e8e49c1991478c5f18a73f07b9ab5e5e01e69e5bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AD 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 6e6beabf21ae786f3e055a661b9bcf8125d68cd5ae7e71fe8ea3add539f488aa