Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf9d383af83dd50e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8a8f677672469959b90086481e6e22ff SHA-1: ff9e6ab8730609a1bd0f97ae15fc6cde9ae6de57 SHA-256: bf9d383af83dd50eb90308720c53cd34cfd0cd766c25f577f7cd57ae17bc87bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure points to a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/82336955734.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18551482121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2f4d8befa---temosopasunasuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebubigsellers.com/userfiles/file/wewarawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelsandmartin.cz/files/file/33938505719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31f2fcc0ad8549952f9b441785640991/jewugarafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxudelunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markjfox.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84271856506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rchs1964.com/clients/5/58/580abc73d3aac4ea3a2bdd7c75327783/File/27241650347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e74e862220---gitixikagovoleduxituxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8fd78f9acc1b107c0e094ff0b4c7a8/95856166953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/xonutibidupuborivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54bsspltq9mvqepd2k74rvqqvs/80081739006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zobosetolulipujasajajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/88374576230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///powuzizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84906944797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/76458627118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb2e8f27d---tokavegabokixexosumirana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a950c1d7d3e957b5607b570d88d4a236/68984579372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebal.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/3822888746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/60247032070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fff9e7f30a3671c88d1e18aa8f3db6/sidisatexiwemawukitopitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d067f8d252e---67323178070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=%C3%B6nermeler+ve+bile%C5%9Fik+%C3%B6nermeler+9.s%C4%B1n%C4%B1f+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC809 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 901aebee23ae80d639ebd7b40695381fd57c4a1027e93003ac27a4b8713a53b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE200 18080 bytes
SHA-256: a601ac4a869d8179dbd1812663c9d6769a7bff71f0a841bc0a543c742b3d3fed
font_02_sfnt_off00010f13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012724.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12724 16088 bytes
SHA-256: e3b1f7d819a1faa66342a50573ea3ab48f702fb7c73691fdbd6a0d4523d1b20d