Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfcb4aadc138b3ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-20 04:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 681ed5c570ca05e32a2941b60f0ef478 SHA-1: eb6fcda3a4ccc67582bf9af46aaa76c9b890c22d SHA-256: bfcb4aadc138b3ee121a19f14e992cdd8fdba168ac7afb6fd369f0ebc25f1d8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations, indicating an attempt to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25c933b7b7b9fed4a313f2f05803efd9/mavunugewik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://linardi.ru/files/file/pivikomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efa84ad69---49514116443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/fabuvebipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baliretreatcenter.com/olabali_ci/media/images/newsfiles/vofoxudalebilevodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/figunarovonuxurol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3a0a2f379f---11274729759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210610004605984377y1y6x8fgzitl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hph23hi4uisulc3pqc48tsvdl/tagedukupixur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7tulfuukvjq4oh39s1b3gqn3e/76873656621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/mivarakimeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/fejukibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/zusoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamlineparkplaza.com/assets/amund/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunugokutamitowexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/letevekidevoxisako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrzservices.com/uploadfiles/file/95435011812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b599696f5f---10618084312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemenufexisipukuboboxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/xowuzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c856d7db306---wosironilivotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3a785351d---satexujisujuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/51879872071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+control+airpods+volume+on+amazon+fire+stickPDF 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_off0000dc1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC1D 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 992fdeaaeb32f6e06648d147fd910bb779ab5dfeba292d861cbef26aae9ef956
font_01_sfnt_off0000f64d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64D 17096 bytes
SHA-256: bdbfc10edb55c33b4d5a08134083791a8c8030fd53c5c453d55e46101535a935
font_02_sfnt_off000122d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1