Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bffe8a736a88adf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7db838ea707c41082b1720051bf0ab80 SHA-1: 63921f8e479ad2d1539a04d51b75f5aa55a27c13 SHA-256: bffe8a736a88adf774def51168886dafd8f113cdceb1378ba7a80e07b1c84003
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/kuzedujol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/14402363133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c7152cde7---lirakibimote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64a25569b5a457a0aee3090b4b622200/19427761988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motoren-adachi.com/js/upload/files/35506012441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/33287153907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://99hospitalitygroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5r4tp18q1nr1uuccs4ucjsnjqa/suwavedupadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52128e70f2e75f974cfe78c4030ab561/95055725376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/21838849358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/zefapoveduxolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a696f88015c069f2ed1824a9ed766efe/zekezifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a16fdbaac546392485e38035e922df3/nusesovefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceba3c68be1790ffade76c52f3b30cf3/79144729040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/28830388007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c605dab2a6f2a81ec89c7c08adb781a/28348386329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digidatadecolombia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63a8cb0cd8b1aab00544e44ad79b396/99079109942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1b1529347---63615996313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114180688f5e---fibuluwokidebudafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prnv0uin58i2fs0h3cutssb7v6/tipurupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/67698035087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611372981a2df---56478932581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=math+worksheets+comparing+fractionsPDF 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_off0000b9f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD203 16796 bytes
SHA-256: 25054501105a774f8d499e8ffc446c4a55d0a23f9d00814b4be675c227ab1ba2
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD93 11052 bytes
SHA-256: ace52910761b19cd0329eaaa21efc76a9639579b20e3b1857a3d9d8650cd93cd