Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc08b74e8c93df04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0b965f511bcd7308a23ce84f31c452fb SHA-1: a2d94c598ad6e653009eee6f8decd503f68bd035 SHA-256: bc08b74e8c93df0452a86c931c4b9aabf2d033c484c0f88f741d1a444403c91a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and external URI firings strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gimp+layer+effects+like+photoshop PDF link annotation
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/86418201819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52916301c---28647547675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c13dc7a993---84797450781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/97960647260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92ef6e93b3---pajifupogiwowulanimelegez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceded1b6e57---vupilenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a67502e7e754ec175e820288fb33a046/31906776700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30c842f14af5ac465b8d26360db7237d/2782381075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i89muicuk1thto3polal8i736/28356588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/niwizesukijijamedatelapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/90796030971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/6399018327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/99533747385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1609a650c74351---77978220034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/kuzabumafobabosolovumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8dc3bd719---jusudiwijapenadojomepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210627005730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/6562085882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/816073253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aeca92pf68lr0fp6p3bppfir2/83908088951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ddb0f417b---4856755784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/pinokaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vesutisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://darshanam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zorupisobotodugobibet.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_off0000faba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABA 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 91f283dafef1d9794af15708a451948ad4cdc977079c7b15afbf3a7fcba336a8
font_01_sfnt_off00012889.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12889 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140A0 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 958338e6a00884285b3b154bfa220d130032fa7c12b1c638b05c29d83e1506ad