Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfcda5e5cd111fd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-08-12 05:41:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 97dbeb36de8f7b45999a1606af8b0839 SHA-1: 1ecba1e91e63ef7ad2dcccc3c3387c9548487207 SHA-256: bfcda5e5cd111fd8076482399efd518f78ea6056a830f459e259f18394c3f7df
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, including ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other unknown domains, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e447396b5b0---33349857645.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/71816721481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/bosikepuvuzupiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/3542027015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvntdiqe27qkhicrnmhl3fju83/78038405304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607271a9f18cb---xitodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/75681152426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded7221a25928f943251418529a453c7/82793165819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af408dae9bfdcbaea404c7cd7745ee6a/53138995902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtqkns2ht6aojlb94tjl75j13j/2740693464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ab0234c95ba7084fb39dce6a16fc06/famunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5147f7013f6fdd838759b1be433dc26/1081260225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161091dfa45a70---seruvemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://suachuathietbi.com/upload/files/zumununatuvifumikekufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/28356876549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/duroperan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/gutuzozizadafuzodeduxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f8ca55567---xewomogeguzigiwikirikojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/dumofuxorunibitezodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d5l8p8rbb265f18fbr3fc69kl/29759381651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/62157071664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/ditenodadizifutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/80846773657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846e87cbdba---dazojexuxuxosajib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+danur+asih+full+moviePDF 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_off00010364.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10364 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011b7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B7B 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 26704dbe9acc96d10e64aa346529442ab11a8b6625d90290460ac56f57967fa2
font_02_sfnt_off0001341d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1341D 16816 bytes
SHA-256: d912ca2ee9deaf99a1a5351b25287178c70960ea71a5dce36eeed0456f6c7351