Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcdf731ee910ac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-06-08 03:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 2fd7520ced8d18e79e9a18adfa7c55f4 SHA-1: c7253457581e92ef3213b5a29be7fad038a2edf2 SHA-256: 2bcdf731ee910ac9f693a7baa5d9c211f991030d95ae7cf5ee8b6563970d84b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=limiting+factors+of+photosynthesis+a+level+aqa PDF link annotation
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oot98c4hemhcamdncbp8kc53ja/89517296175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92e471dc0---23960278592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/45741933448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/96218903227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/1117326309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/wajasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/509c17110f922333d2adf7142532a6eb/89909650860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/fifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgl3dej47iiokghrogigjiukd0/vetagosuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5fd38f8fd---90945744034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2afd3f5ecb9e9b6454858732a293d368/85198913656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077b5ef9ff9f90eca3a89ecd2109dc7e/dukujasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d448f7cc7e6b5c11e2f1c51c75d11b33/36389375606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd0c3383d2b3bbb121e535f157af484/sudiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e9e90bdce---rasirele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3179cea8d88a63c6b5f900442c860824/duwajanakosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • 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/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d477.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD477 5444 bytes
SHA-256: 8ea7e49a54667b8a841608b9a84bb515f1b71be46e9fb6384ff972873a5de624
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D7 9824 bytes
SHA-256: 9b786ccce40f3c33beda2551c5506d3208c622adf7b4ce21937adeb7c05c2d55
font_02_sfnt_off00010876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10876 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378