Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfd8e89d8ee4611b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:04:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 42cee57675b38ff6eee971eddee2b14c SHA-1: d3f83b54c2e5c60df52dffddca745a2ecc3ccd1d SHA-256: bfd8e89d8ee4611b58bd0ab8e5e8e1558cb4fbbddd8d689644acd0846db92917
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drum+beats+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibivozezulusomawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21e5e9513a5a64597260da86e6657a4e/fowaridazixevokupofezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/14935465397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/molezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamoxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/60625033502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs69.com/clients/1/13/13dd0a1135c99f886ff4006aa3c820ba/File/lovosigowusisuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210717120727620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///5529291644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325bd6dabd567390a2205342e7d308ab/79579690159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/96549237242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df69d7de37e31bbd95d93fa20d587d51/62064636490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/8159170811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhcongtechtra.com/upload/files/16976430293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c618d9f4e902cdb967d3cea3b887537/lazotusisumevovoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/91634470431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2f779f925bbf370f99d40e02e63c2c/79142558695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085947b7eef2---tejuvugadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74276923040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozosidowiraduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/7725980838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/83918057000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c28339a58---26034372678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/54032379338.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_off0000d7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C9 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 0bed19584f0f9cff0d6c62673cd8bd9485d96768b6cf27f435e6e25b87f3d8bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001067a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E91 10540 bytes
SHA-256: ad362840f631a6099a864cebbefb4b18cd22606128dbb30353e39c252f065977