Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc2715b11d91f974…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-18 16:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fee172aebc21f9ea2d2e4dda30015a3d SHA-1: 0fae10d3c3f5bd1b89ca2a3e1e218226d8c1446f SHA-256: bc2715b11d91f9747a5b979cdacfc28a3596b10bc7ba5f225a67a1eb77918a5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content disguised as a textbook. The PDF structure and embedded links indicate a link farm designed to host and distribute further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pearson+algebra+1+common+core+textbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7hugn3f424f9n863f43d6for5/81734811654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/792a6ee2dafa598942e98ccfd5f51536/wopuganux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bd59b2e8d---tewosidijibalonaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laqg941jr2fg7a3gul6seretv6/2777715595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61cc1789457fc7c7b2c30bc0e17456c/lalitawitusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ed199f566---dazazebejirasuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/kevulidevosakibokitirerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03aofbcsmkr046qbi3kfboj6e3/38550342243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/sujetajudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1105572781---3773303084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2cbb7bf77b---rikane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl213kqe7t612tbiv5a0b6oh35/safomovaruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/lobeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/refovuseranewivane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a822a17e5b5---57257055159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spadhotel.com/basefile/spadhotelcom/files/segetikudiraleditilikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmvb5qbhtr2snhio41pe0d3trs/vuworiweludipuzawafowubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57B 5800 bytes
SHA-256: 594a2aee8def632f1828b7d5f4d49b5aaefab262f30fa0f0ae83be6119694640
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92C 11220 bytes
SHA-256: a3455857fc78761c8c8ee313aecd2289f94472ce703d6d2b81b6422bd1a7741c