Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc1e513337195b09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-14 13:25:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5bdb1a3277c24a0be51a8a06784323f2 SHA-1: 0a471a0bf9d3f32e27786ca372f5bff972e853f0 SHA-256: bc1e513337195b0984d3d1069e0ca1995af4f123e63d111af28a90e1c5484fe6
164 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 external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of these links suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings strongly indicate a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3b1cbcdfc8---talomemuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wphs69.com/clients/1/13/13dd0a1135c99f886ff4006aa3c820ba/File/beribuwakagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/25566041312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atp89nipnstq9e3gf14j6o2jsb/21049599888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/buwapufumisikebuxuxetoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/34787652597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3r6am67lrfj8mi3sg3uk73q47/koxojebojowosadakivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/98432248946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608364a206716---nusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3qlohas.com/CKEdit/upload/files/27861848705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/59140630976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/210721064148972590umhv4ymw824m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/xatogeroki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/telubolovafiguxosotoduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/82877161068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kzlo.pl/fotki/fotki/file/pajarumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/naridal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d731efc4f96---gevixozuzoputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/xawuxokatogamazoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54dd4058a3---golevubulidikajorirugasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/vatibunite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cfcedd079d---xiwaxulodobuwigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cbdaf14e5c---18073358007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=c%C3%A1ch+hack+gem+dragon+city+2020PDF 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_off0000e0dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DD 31040 bytes
SHA-256: e43d4af7040f952b0ea069625b536f23b1c9463b67d1b3236b3ceb524a9404db
font_01_sfnt_off00011b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B88 11264 bytes
SHA-256: c2444083287732ac77d23ea4105b6b03695acc6942d69ad4d0067c4252053a64
font_02_sfnt_off00013540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13540 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1