Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bc6fd5339ae5a61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-26 00:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 96e9aae07f207cd7d131b90f8565b52b SHA-1: 46457e93b3dec94d7bb67c717d09e61c55d31f76 SHA-256: 1bc6fd5339ae5a6172538df874f881cd13af9061caf2560138a44198610bcc61
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress upload storage. The presence of multiple link farms on disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/febuzul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210505031507174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c40a0ed5803b42352f0c6f32db114907/tapafetarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/54495824695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/sipovutewive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608358e954cc5---73454216346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/ruvetivobuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xutefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/98039796329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/medatapajikarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/dukisexiwobalimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/wasube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/48712731533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/xarefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e36cb660e1da1a3fc80172add6f4ed9c/72356010584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/mizirotasasekesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1b28dcea0---sugobamunexivemoruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99fbrnbjlk8e2b8lmot2b6ma4/48354383092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52b87e304f9c0033de2244cb5510102b/gijigivajivugejaseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/rutofusajemigeralevuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/zijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/34628062081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf8e2ea351---larugejuvinutenugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/ruzafisisijonipumakum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=eating+green+tomatoesPDF 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_off0000f16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16F 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 7e76c1410b50c5828f79ef30bef9819a1792a8d16024acbe69c0b7124b734d74
font_01_sfnt_off000108ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12101 17464 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef8ac0f4eabc99b36520ddce5a87be1ecade80559f1df80ff6dfdcf7186fc1b