Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bfe2946d748faecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:18:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 436da03b710729d6ec9ce51b2d71e4ab SHA-1: f78a11283dd7ac82da1bc5c16f07160014e1dfb7 SHA-256: bfe2946d748faecd60a0432965689c0ba7daa1e68f0f8d88b07909249d537296
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piteteju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806f2574e9c---48235129776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/mupojokepuvamiwudazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdfinalists.ca/clients/43449/File/27326805528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mszukam.pl/dat//file/10936272950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/sedefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-23/20210523135308836275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00cf83b490501b7d9e4394654d223e4/47691726859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b8d6db874---jasugudadabew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n260vtnb2e43d164q95l4ievcv/wazitoniravazodenipedexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/vivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e1nrohrpjaphkv9sdjvqfkbh/13780513805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/1377405252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9db312ad76---rurapekirujovofasofis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad4a3f7d9784577da80caee749d02990/deses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/fojivojekamod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/35759577814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02f5ae84c8---wonizewatoxiliwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f34b0deacc7896a062929d72506198cf/61209639517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8624fce5e980882755eeb618de4d8d39/gelogozowodanisinadididaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/gilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0c6726954d8db32b388347da62109af/96797439823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/xesukavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+do+bats+look+like+when+they+flyPDF 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_off0000e81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81F 10776 bytes
SHA-256: c054b4f0a3b87ca7f656c4f2116587708d6e797062c92fffa574f691e5b3054d
font_01_sfnt_off000100ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100EC 17500 bytes
SHA-256: bcd9626fcdef615204383647689976bcc81370ff4815e62d69b2c54c94082334
font_02_sfnt_off00012e33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1