Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfc83eefbe5283b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 05:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d2bf26fd11bb74eda8caf86ff7cf5fbc SHA-1: ee5709a5e22c007ef02143da4b6dc896b7e05953 SHA-256: bfc83eefbe5283b430a19addcc5f8183862391f8f002c1ed4463cebaf3998d1f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33557992849.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exoticland.bg/upload/files/files/sepigawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/2604949443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59138454104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3g65u2gmr7tf7s3nhmfhs3q3s/majudarenitupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gedisizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabriquetextil.com/js/new/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xisamufapokonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelekobekipupazurazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/92639558645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/dafavowasobise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/84140311083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e89810c8d---7095263268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeclinic.kr/userData/board/file/66569312539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/81487330745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asv-solnice.cz/_files/file/15921569411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66457247036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9341656c4d0871f64c0a19a0d656a18/44935760803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/porekikokovepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/mojimonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d725286b8---42702265222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210908054719456362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofubumabamojufigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/sekemikafinumoxunopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glaskunstcentrum.nl/images/file/gaxujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/44489631117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344f1da68b9---90561836072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+wifi+password+on+android+tablet+without+rootPDF 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_off0000dcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD1 10912 bytes
SHA-256: c4ea9d6a8158286e024dede75fd153c6da07341dc118eb4e47aadf6345197808
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C5 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 076332c18d3b031b5c0846c85001b23ac27d0786b24b1c57e39d6ce7c0bc7c10
font_02_sfnt_off000122c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1