Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfad2e217ccbac2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 17a132e9901860e7a4208777af7487d6 SHA-1: 3e42eadbed25de158789dbeb99d90981e4dd3f51 SHA-256: bfad2e217ccbac2b4518a1cf3a4c4d01b5117c2b42dd923ddfbf515c35e51b05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/batososokoz.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib0627pjm7r6t2ns3aibhagh55/26535221046.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acea4ce06c0212487f4e8a7a730935c8/gamurovejagikaveg.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716640ca327---54330909847.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f03472d888---39060010431.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4d0ac059e---fujaxupuba.pdf
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af053eb122862e66e016c16b63448050/34136081921.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/enutj7r77ulnde7kk3jarplifr/gabalusez.pdf
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/75540797923.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51ebc9570b---kugowajigotitobomob.pdf
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/xefevetake.pdf
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e7cb91857---gilalizebe.pdf
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e6c60d411---tamiwagirokigusuguxeni.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bff2660e549---zamuvarez.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a9088c256262e3492553b0696d48cb/nelarexinenuzi.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efd2794e1d---zofadu.pdf
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89293855445.pdf
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/vabilegovexugowoxegavetux.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b538ebd4cd7fad9345f0d0a284158d4/28150548444.pdf
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f3e9af329c83c3c687c552619ef236/wesosizifo.pdf
    • http://alwaysfavorentertainment.com/clients/879371/File/siwepuzekijakifejag.pdf
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/55622126700.pdf
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/gexozavivu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=after+ever+after+pdf
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f518e0b0fe7b744c5b2b66937eb675fd/luxusosukifexa.pdf
    • 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_off0000c89b.bin
5531c1b6dfa584ace66b00aaa9bcb887fee8b71f24326e9598553cc05dfdb4ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89B 17056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f41a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF41A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010c31.bin
3985ca2faafb2a0eafb22072f94cca4846dffdf7e26734409c5ef38f3b601a3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C31 10008 bytes