Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfbace42c769dd46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 03:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d742e154bd2a638e86ba64428b01abd5 SHA-1: 4a47ca0c9bffa39b817f2a6af56316c7b19d4c63 SHA-256: bfbace42c769dd46edd9268da1626bad36eab8c4b6b1c1ca8f791ca5402b12d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and compromised CMS uploads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of multiple external URIs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+mobile+legend+download PDF link annotation
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/nupibolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/rujotepazolopebijufuluxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsru.md/upload/userfiles/files/zovugilasolipemota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25bc6c7ec3399fdc3078a312b170a4d9/xavanabarawizovunar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be04534ba8abd9ca8ecd4fd8e16d111/tumesetidutupazigulip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shropshirefurniture.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurozezugisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/kumimazoturewubegakebejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/mivokuzisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/uploads/userfiles/files/71807164373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/4398695296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzbaosui.com/uploadfile/files/dasijejevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gufupitumegidiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/wubavurebezewuraratiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/kerukexekoserobaxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tannhatviet.vn/upload/files/78504921289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf0bfd81eb---simikogagarabilenupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llbyggodesign.se/UserFiles/files/52708207747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrostroi-proekt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulagutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/roturebibokawadewaxejuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88286894889.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_off0000af0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c721.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC721 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 13fce89cb8be61010a236daf733ece5d934a2390d34d14052ac37fe0f8c648c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000df1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF1E 15268 bytes
SHA-256: d224f71672f8ea1bdee3726879c597f5a6486134cdb2e5c035d3675176a04b66