Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bcdc517179d781e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 00:43:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: abbc94faa8c44fa73d3abf7c53ead91f SHA-1: ccb0b3ac0140941f1abc2b8e9b9ce315f59eca69 SHA-256: 8bcdc517179d781ed44ac5355f509cc6d205e092e9fd53c1917aa242fd1fe88d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+commonwealth PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a726hhucg0j9kedl9poj33m4e1/57177399292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p74g6adbr7bj991e0ug3ep60lo/65991746158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073214aa30e6---xigugarosegagarejuzilodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93gqfbl6lg1ctnr2ec1jmugdbg/55861286603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/gedamajuforuzuvenunaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ckqlsirpsvr6iicrllsc5ca5/29641215297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a342054852d---vuperujogafalaneleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/2050280607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/59812913841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/83381970773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610055634423320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b13b549b16def4a618e0977dfe71dd6/59454068899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a14c704df8---nabobixevomakuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/13342475327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacviettech.vn/userfiles/file/jitorenodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d95c7c72d---suwipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d8446e448---zuwaxijajorurusimopivuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifi-markt.info/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59791286382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/xisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c08cb5d77---44871043705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f6a6c0b72---jowololosejakojipirijatox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/refeminagodepekezonoremuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/78231610255.pdfIn 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/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_off0000f687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF687 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 3e720c6b89996e5c34daeba3ecd25b8188083113962b0be464ad0f68bc0917d8
font_01_sfnt_off000123aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AA 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 9d0a7baef01fd61f31d82f03a764f51b5c4c65f34499d8ccc635d6d04fb57984
font_02_sfnt_off00013b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1