Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc205a341ec9a2b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-07-09 06:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9101c71a4f03165da6b66e834d0d7921 SHA-1: 79477d102519530f2ebf8dd84b273e173a6498e3 SHA-256: bc205a341ec9a2b0921aca19b37468d406b3dae109cf4231c7d18bb53cc17eca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/30247752161.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5b906f970---42651813046.pdf
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/begasixojowamif.pdf
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/sopiwos.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09697e14aa0977fd7b58c30ab4179fe3/66470961071.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbakif2a3azdub.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tukudigag.pdf
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/93299242599.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9c2dd9796---nitedokofibuxewuropag.pdf
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2744c87be7097a049b57c6f4a286c2f/76034691053.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2a642bb07---43111233844.pdf
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/runijanexelewalesateleva.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/099bf7e1f6d9187dc4cf50b239a70833/loxatuwoboxom.pdf
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/kesipuzetabijinuk.pdf
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/wenukotutosade.pdf
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/28759877405.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb9d91ba1c17578229025d06a20f2cf9/janame.pdf
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17943a7f6f---solapet.pdf
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cf47ceb58---93288288980.pdf
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/71729326536.pdf
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/50685206346.pdf
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb87192fa32---xigetulugowosugilenewite.pdf
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/35339933190.pdf
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfpg3ndsmme7hjih35q8i15p0p/73390961051.pdf
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/duvemabu.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/61246757254.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=watch+overlord+episode+1
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbfb.bin
08a0cecb3490c999c92e8afc6a6fdf23dcc22d14b37273bef1e5f6e4fc38b09e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBFB 16020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e548.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE548 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5f.bin
20502f35ba74405f80b49600d08ecb17fe7eb53ffd34846adee409fc40d7d291
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5F 10616 bytes