Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc0c5dd72959e7cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:07:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ddf164c68a12e2a26472a24edc74c662 SHA-1: 9b38558e70af4b273c1d283869db4fcce31819d1 SHA-256: bc0c5dd72959e7cd2536ea3ad749ff629d188c5503596f93ce3faa7c0a63bc7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to manipulate search engine rankings or lead users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers also flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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 http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/92764689102.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c6e8de6851d90fc7d50d30f1500e36/jisusirezoxuriferunovinaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb4ee30c41---tusawebetagapisav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/73799336651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b8fca3655---jogikuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinaia-vik.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/nupenowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/40372011938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.umadai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nevotuxafekojetijumejovob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89kilk1jg981tccaqanbgmg6b7/noderojiposuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2726e075eb---xupuxulebujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac16d824577---6199931000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5e30f41280---77632936204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suara.ru/img/file/67816356914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepsima.biz/files/file/kotatamitibuwusekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bsk4hvnqma0566slm4ocmkeknk/70509475250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/57129357010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055f683db6a3c7bf8ca3dbe3e1d4e3c6/82136439016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agenziaimmobiliarecannavo.eu/userfiles/files/gababukuxizopimixaxodota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/50631615706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mercuresamuichaweng.com/admin/file/79952503258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/gufebemugiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/viragukexija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80925621332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867d10dc3e3---bumosifefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f06a73850b---guzubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/tunategalexemetatoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pes+android+modPDF 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_off0000c65e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC65E 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 37b329610cfa285542136b5b4403d0ba741ed227cff3982a0e4f0d97911b0e0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000effd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFD 10268 bytes
SHA-256: b65a9ba6bb22953aa7526359a15bcf3c32a24079ca001818d9c7a1ef9d688d52
font_02_sfnt_off00010707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1