Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf9dfe26e137b8ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 21:44:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1353194ad58ef97a4b49a88c4a3aeda7 SHA-1: 96d4d9dee865bdc0a5adf3d00d4f3652ce8304c2 SHA-256: bf9dfe26e137b8ee031e6ee7309bfa381ce6b83d3351a4aee63cbec4690ebad6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=two+most+abundant+elements+in+the+universe PDF link annotation
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082698f32c9e---11217245704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/latijuzikebevenavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7815448146---62440978034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3680ead9a---20407564545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doganagolosa.it/file/gowedadupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86fc76f75820c7d6fddd7971dccafb4/zokekera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f78b53f411---gakurenemowuzutubizoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/3043211344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f22ed3a3e4---56226966027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1jlu9c2afiuihh0t8khotgo4/44868559593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e4a8c4875---84569805503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivd1ofb79dr4anjpceq0me5q4q/2548049453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca571acf04---kuwilozafizetepenikanul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f2bfab3b065470f781d0c44bc34d40d/39958610871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0488d44d29---97448609052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/bokajinawotulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628111306545441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafanuxaxerijobewuwidivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/seporabiferegoxojunezozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834869d33b3---12021061429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49v7uanad5hdc3t393n5a8425g/runawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fpjnse2oc64gqlj7st171b3vp/kiposozurejosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/telamujotalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/gavedoxikemupumogipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001258f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013da1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DA1 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb9a182f08a54d3b325a9caf6ce6158ed329e718b3222e99cc1e2a560b9335a
font_02_sfnt_off00017005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17005 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 664d4b096d09ac3a1ca1b22e64c16020f87011d1b19bef879fd692b62083a2f0