Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bff8c2f9837480aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 21:21:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e222b2e5d7c53e9d6873b01937bd8ef4 SHA-1: 0719424ee3b7b51697254063edff477838f92262 SHA-256: bff8c2f9837480aa397a4d9d8e89d531e9ff8c00b2e2f75c4090629cc1770972
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to domains flagged as disposable or potentially compromised, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://gzlmjx.com/data/home/bxu2343160066/htdocs/uploadfile/files/vugokenisovoko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingsfci.com/userfiles/file/19295136551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unaizahic.com/Files/files/pagosuwalabupajoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/mobukigudugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingdom.vn/userfiles/file/40741676757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090412044014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/volupujewapetitenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benevolo.it/userfiles/files/71449624105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/wurakepumizafuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82844607477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8f09d1a97---jonefegetonevexabafudofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dcf761607---zipiropuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/xebefumilunezudaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/51654132300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/96971487829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/15178248397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd6956e20b---muberatakabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/nufonexomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/ladudafaletokanurolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://087334211.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pedafekivebugowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphastkala.com/userfiles/file/73395226383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=catcher+in+the+rye+pdf+chapter+21PDF 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_off0000cc88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC88 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 481a583588a1ab7e7700722762b0927bced7aaa2ee4a28854bba261e677b3c89
font_01_sfnt_off0000f730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF730 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F47 10700 bytes
SHA-256: beb7a33133a9420d0f827e63913137ea71bcbbb1d73d04ce722ec4831e69c8ab