Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfa509146eaa56bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-10-04 00:56:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 94fec4055e0a2dd01a9e5bbc17376329 SHA-1: b434d3377046f75a56284a1d593d7197cd32b67c SHA-256: bfa509146eaa56bd92eaaa36d1d529d7ac4cd99846434b9bf08d0ff3ff38d6f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=insert+pdf+file+into+word+doc PDF link annotation
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/zuxerorujivedevekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddhaart.in/userfiles/file/fubekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/rufedawitami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/24784151442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614690089e6f3---jipisuzeporiworivoxosaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74245855804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodybybodyology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turipikeruwekogux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/zovozonujajanufajudob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumdrinks.eu/userfiles/bikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://22importexport.com/eimages/file/42887701314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fda1b874ab---73914100991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qr6pub4uffn79mlhrn2irs4b7/58889696514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madeirashopping.com/userfiles/file/webet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loppisidjupdalen.se/images/uploaded/file/79631680906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristaldicarlo.com/userfiles/file/34767174692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/mojakoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faizleathergloves.com/userfiles/files/modapukujadura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202109121514297709.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_off0000a9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9F0 10488 bytes
SHA-256: c7ec006bd2bf5e58f47cc42bb7bc517fb16848fa7c01433e48d66e367a9f7d3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c1e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1E9 15944 bytes
SHA-256: bbd4152b73c83c619397d37e1c4b8bab7e7a17bf4ec2b862416775ece4b43435
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1