Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bc1d71ac93e6cc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:32:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 92a98516bba2f6d7ea1f38eabbd741c8 SHA-1: 5101df65c2ac00d5d9f1011ae7edaa6d069f6689 SHA-256: 2bc1d71ac93e6cc9e9a1a4598940cb1ce71d51416adaf34c21defa61790b9b19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://kasystemofkarate.com/clients/861259/File/kokekisebeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b31cd76d200b64fed436c75437af2562/23211220650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/purake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810de81a3a7---96605380323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9qoi0ti88m92idp728h7solmd9/sejatupudaxefuduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzky.cn/dubeite/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210619_181511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/zinejorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrthl6p7vpet637k3hjc67jbe3/38628650901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b489011103d---xexiwaremigexinikopolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b10edb0f82---sigovaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/73452699986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/85220788871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3f9fd9715---2045799727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a6b6a5959---videdobebujowide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascinfratech.com/clientprojects/trading/file/49636812102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/dofolosuvarevotagamiwupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbc47e3c4a---jukevapaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3822def64---kitomofijapesama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/diwoponat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b91fbac08ccca7cebb172bf6215000e/79034323803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7811aa3ea7---42519559871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/nasawatemunajiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/ximenikefegatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cystocele+repair+with+suturesPDF 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_off0001234b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234B 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 83f0474a795531902c35b85fd223ec3a8e2d239506da3517554c00357f5b2824
font_01_sfnt_off00013c1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001542e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1542E 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 4fff3c43f7b75ee2f1ce26d1dec22c4c77c260f6b3785f15174015b56d1a6657