Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfab2c6678c43647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 20:37:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 90a2773cae27290fe7384cee3e307ec7 SHA-1: b2036bdf8b3dba6842c7c851ca8d6961e99ff4bc SHA-256: bfab2c6678c43647223d195549957aa6afdb8ba1b8fc188a730a201d4d08764d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's used to host or distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://rivaflo-south.in/userfiles/files/kifaxumopamolavukux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb2b8a8f83---91155279820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4188773c54c75df023ac2657a88d9f26/49897104188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09555ce84b6ba93d8776264727e69170/51866487450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/pebafubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74o397q0ujjpkc5dglaj687hk2/nevevosafutemodazufitusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a19326d7d1---bupinakaxozeloluxosojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbdppqjm1psl8ob77dbchs33vi/76722792203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/natusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55627578216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a2390862666---80801803814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072719ed0db3---59464748950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a97203de7f---vovorafobijevawodanixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/13716220956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ded270d7b---95422013919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad93ba1b4f---16812510928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/visozukadugodivizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27346c60bc9520b788204684c13b4bd/guvonejedujabadipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080263027f9d---89175025797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc0a13a710---55566336776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5779de4145---43461392999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c884d2caf8bedc27309aaea792bfa93b/folumoxebatudavebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/setikamasevemeginugixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/79863988631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c4c7f059f---39980626912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/94798948323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hiccups+spiritual+meaningPDF 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_off0000f0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B5 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 45848145ea5d56d25ccc946bdbd2477f294b6230b7f2da384777f414f6e4423b
font_01_sfnt_off0001092a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092A 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 58e67e3bbafa6b084ef772d4c8fa8fc2f548887e918d481f0434a6d9cd63aaeb
font_02_sfnt_off000134eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1