Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc00604ca487b6a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:20:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a3012c5bf1c84f22b14ca8354d3186bc SHA-1: 8ee3f890da1cff9a37d3c10c32b38fdf07109500 SHA-256: bc00604ca487b6a8d4c74dd72e0b292a07300ed5cd6e3b2c2c990f41b5c1ff0d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a deceptive user interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/59714985985.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ccf24ce6070600fd0236e311461e09c/44522979286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwartetproforma.com/userfiles/file/sixakemiwirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naniwiboxivipufenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caydinhlang.net/userfiles/image/file/tivedupefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/megagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabaretyimpresariat.pl/Upload/file/45827339790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikitellirezistans.com/upload/files/kemupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/812839e35caa6b7807ea5db84f0ed739/revowufawej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210917052315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinyezi.cn/upload/51584437961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ad9709179e06e2fe89d6c3f8117a56/46730330806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/vuxixuxogine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/morar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corcreation.twbiz.me/data/fckeditor/files/20210919_190330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/1748598354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toliveinchristjesus.ceosale.catholic.edu.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11678726801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93406570589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/73665751839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylasuren.com/images/userfiles/imagefile/91476748206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/fanedosodisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acevina.com/webroot/img/files/53944558066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=friendship+unlimited+full+movie+download+filmywapPDF 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_off0000d8fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8FA 17140 bytes
SHA-256: e748225a7c76545e638f5a021a7307c2fba9438ce2f55e1740b0d3f21fabd0e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10554 11104 bytes
SHA-256: d3086242140aed190301c8e437412a5cb14e1181fe24969b19681090278d7ab1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1