Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfa0acbafb8675a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 00:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c84f088c5144c19b779acc21e72f7c36 SHA-1: 6de33da0ee959d268dbb15e813fe48155d057f50 SHA-256: bfa0acbafb8675a099f68bcc7a6b3327c10e5a1cc2b425853961b1abd37fd8cb
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristics indicate it's an image-only document designed to trick users into clicking an embedded link, likely to a compromised CMS upload or disposable hosting site. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests a redirection chain to a malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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 http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210607142233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/wimuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e98e7495c4---54707974926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/gujivolisulasifalesutowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5af8307f6acc18ac33b4254a01dc8ee/18386630866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/kusakeziwudolewuxuderus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210706160756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fc34788779bea6f4748c6ef2aa1df1/wirosisakosazofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969c62590c4ca9dae2038bef9f25476f/76384408454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/40861422598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/81113181880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608298011709b---kufunulakowivuwazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/pidebubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740c8f5691f---3141045694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samudra99.com/contents//files/jemokisuxegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c872f2a36---verujujasuzefilesuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed5fe5d875---10479360139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pctbrhbd8bfjsck6epdrmb8op5/gumejunigobakomonojujor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d3decec2165537846e879d911236db/16851595502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olguanaokulu.com/upload/file/megefonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caeb00757d8---kodudusiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ed2a5a4c6---kutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanjutpt1.com/contents/files/libupanutinuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/89875075882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=valley+metro+bus+map+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_off0000b180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB180 13928 bytes
SHA-256: 964473b5fe16a756375dc3b526310eddc8e1d1800cf941942cc4fd60cfccbad2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d40e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD40E 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c7ab0f3bf8066fa73ab116db5a43308bc9a5f10e89a8cd0c835038213cd1290b
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1