Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc2696574233b2e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-10 10:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6517fb8ba4a80e81690bfdaee20ecd83 SHA-1: 68eb59329abc4649a672b2f1dd65aefcff914a11 SHA-256: bc2696574233b2e813ab93ffc6d01a3e44d23c5227cec91374a66b8a7756de77
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external sites, some hosted on compromised WordPress uploads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://obraz-tlt.ru/userfiles/file/wodutopelapiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://salt17.com/userfiles/files/zifafisadofomelisaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/2735179003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zibarajabi.com/cache/fck_files/file/70000335118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130534c80331---19615459436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72990303663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edenestates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2927645382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents/files/96666021081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motionmantra.com/userfiles/files/saxolufenerusuxowajuwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-10/884c770c8efc43ca46835b0027e4b502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wineart.online/userfiles/file/15060945297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/didusinisajepepilalulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/82964104618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323744c290b---lemelujejiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electronicaindex.nl/images/uploads/42328106723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elencostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/wazilevom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/televipugovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--72c7caerxx0d3a9eve.com/UserFiles/File/mivedasekezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9acf71d85---43061860679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/47280904672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109041746065651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad8d3c016f---90479146231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+file+in+messenger+phonePDF 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_off0000d035.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD035 20868 bytes
SHA-256: 081df57d1178dc7147c812259d07d0100c4d3d90c0bcd4d4d42cd6f9003d243f
font_01_sfnt_off00010624.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10624 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 1254271b4bd50fb44dd41c05e461bf9c0e3bf40156a0daf62314ed562e9b1a6a
font_02_sfnt_off00011ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ECB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1