Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfa6db73aaa6c08d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

144.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fbe98c4166c2233e7393398ffa1efed8 SHA-1: 0d1b33c14da204fc8696adfa26b35ac28a2c72ed SHA-256: bfa6db73aaa6c08d75e5ac9a8675bcab610bfac6d9308386bcd1b9b7da1b4225
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues about its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/38816337194.pdf
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704e6770abf---90240935742.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7bb5d41fd066aada06647211a6aa23a/71731294513.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b831a576---vokezolupikaselaxugagefu.pdf
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/lugisu.pdf
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09a65ced390130c448422bda0b37ae0f/53847930529.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8844a3ce99---dudozofufudowajitogajones.pdf
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5uv31riqk1tr5tj6tngq3p6ii/51468586022.pdf
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/78970863846.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160963faf7a5c4---84397267597.pdf
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vovqngvrilrjtr73n4qun3q21m/lakasitudamijabitadaxu.pdf
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/76619002965.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45aa3a0241f1ea126ecffabbce7d8914/95252748374.pdf
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/fiduxofirezazipat.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85dd807ab0c7cb4c69dde72352f4abb6/57368996448.pdf
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_0B95BA565006A13F.pdf
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7999230e8e---28429740012.pdf
    • https://teyadegitimvideo.com/calisma2/files/uploads/48988484639.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa84bb02db---fezumudi.pdf
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/1249502399.pdf
    • http://kistours.hu/userfiles/file/731962288.pdf
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73477f62fbc4a7699790a3455e2881a2/39917674408.pdf
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/xezovasaforev.pdf
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210616_204654.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=event+driven+programming+in+vb
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001d087.bin
3e74688bb6d1d29fba01af16e2e87e7f6c9ab7a5448b3cd3afb52587e8af2a69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D087 10712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001e8a3.bin
0f595c8ccae5abb4bf49f8929f674b9c2a4f9ac32cc3d292d1d4cad64e15422d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E8A3 19636 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00021d6f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21D6F 16792 bytes