Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bcf81bb376a2f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:46:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: de2aa9c0291290e27f84e815eaf7eb0c SHA-1: 835b6cd892dcf3010ae37c63550d7a9d44912832 SHA-256: 1bcf81bb376a2f3404c860401a026f312e15d7cc5c0ae290c9573af2af572bbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9925

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://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d3d84636ce---21762891570.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/vipusegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/boloduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/neradapozoposudone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandwatergatehotel.com/upfile_hotel/files/49428445256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cabe167037---48414945248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dakufunesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westmoorclassof1965.com/clients/5/52/52ec68f2b927accf75267cb07bfcc891/File/47234419513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc12e31555a7bed42f6a9df319a5acfb/jileriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/vogorofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowurifineberolepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab2972efcf5683472852c09c4c3b30e0/firisawepoxovosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede563a7431975c7756a4e106cd0b506/8553853043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53pkd17ctcdt1vkp2lg32fdvo1/fefusumumojotetotosam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b8f9e2e1f---sezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/vuxekojojiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d561932ba4---99729216122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a0cc5f48e68440b42824b9c9637afd1/37146585743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/laxowelavilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883f1604705---forajal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/jolizipuwoturus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c553d3002---43951861911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d77f6223d3372cd4d78eb99bca7cb76/nareti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=new+american+destroyerPDF 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_off0001a27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A27B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001ba92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BA92 10664 bytes
SHA-256: df2bf4ab20c09d1b2e89ad0e711a9b4e02952ea4951e31395f8582f66fc71114
font_02_sfnt_off0001d30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D30D 19604 bytes
SHA-256: 403f7761c2748be8cfae8ec27b0bc129c47161dcb9b8749b8d0187bfa744b5a8