Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc1e6566e7c9737b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:15:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1d830251703bdc1da427bbfe052b5599 SHA-1: 3080a3839422992a67687dfed0f6f92801fb2c03 SHA-256: bc1e6566e7c9737bc851d9a9f2811701a75693d03d671708590e9702053cc0c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics points to a campaign leveraging link farms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/54386923216.pdf
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a173bcb4f5d---55156130571.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a08ec40a18---94792948596.pdf
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/62290362626.pdf
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/39080533886.pdf
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/961172644.pdf
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cab987b2b3ca24b8069a19285e79debd/kinusorijisi.pdf
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a942f3e29fc---53517280549.pdf
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/41091138308.pdf
    • http://ytlcases.com/userfiles/file/wugunuli.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qja5fk84u8q3eqbvc3og9tmosg/230570953.pdf
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/91677110756.pdf
    • https://infypos.com/infyposcms/media/92624662265.pdf
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/sagutedewamewezewosez.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b082c409ba7---xobivaloditataw.pdf
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf2b13ibjjcpnlvi44hhias4g/fadorimazukisenavo.pdf
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41062091706.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73a2a4b64f---kukedibimulovasu.pdf
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8tq4jsus9uekm5e0plrlv52p9/61655804458.pdf
    • http://smakbyala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97779150793.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/19775570099.pdf
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/togidat.pdf
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/seluxufuxu.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42adceb702---bawazosesekidura.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=ingersoll+rand+ssr+ep+25+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea63.bin
dc06733fb1b3e8baa4303a7b234726769048d67753183ec25fed266cd0fe6b8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA63 16224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010028.bin
1f7be57bafec2d077362b35fe1398a546517f4e56ec4b9e4853a39104cd8be64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10028 17612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e05.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E05 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001461c.bin
4839ac467126d147dc2e387459f34f1b0deb05150d87a58dffe5122fe0b37e0a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1461C 10848 bytes