Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bcfc04e70d840d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f319e6cffa7bc5981ac79b6e653b2ce5 SHA-1: 63698118491f210d13b6fac1894eed845dc397ef SHA-256: 3bcfc04e70d840d7da4b4a0af52e4aabc2b8b708213518ac468650b4003e2777
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs point towards a potential download or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/17091594590.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/49830872937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5319000c6cf13570607101e2c35f358/nebeguwudukoragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/92932231375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed91556fbec9685ff659be065507832/68526959508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoop-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winagodivonunixufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/99559895758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aagkbrca3apkgkee0a1bi.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a266763bc2---vemeriminogutomerixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimazupawivojizaxanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2107140517083674790gc0p59usflp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7os420uepkhv6frtnuh2tnld80/siragovemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/8374101342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b978409256b---28884937306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928b490587952500112783fcaa40f122/nabaxipavegivomulaxojisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/61918796336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e82914d920c7e7c466a765bb02008bbe/98476506601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/789918893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e3ddddac8a2d16c05d7f3a64926ac2/joxumapajexizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75cb82db63d905f08474e0ecbc05369b/29621684087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ba799096d---5296425078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/zawelade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=all+metabolic+pathways+pdfPDF 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_off0000c554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC554 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD66 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 293f38021eca2df0077bc58d1dbe19ace94325d28aa36337c3bbb3a56fb6f1ed
font_02_sfnt_off0001085e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085E 11000 bytes
SHA-256: dd898b8d279bb0e68685dd343e79163e1db09b77bd3e1730a45a4c40b65ae951