Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc294bc68763695a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:56:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 61f6b7cb5ec49b7e567943730839ea79 SHA-1: c11312ba894ff1624e04be171063475b933ea215 SHA-256: bc294bc68763695ac7b0d1e4d77403e6a2f6d43f31b7b4b5ef0f1f5971d03ffc
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The presence of embedded JavaScript and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest the potential for exploitation. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification, likely involving phishing or redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/sujidogotu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1ce9934ac421dbae6e82c2402b71cc/65570706762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/xaruregat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20969280691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/32645805363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/54741158430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33334339447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfasg.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemalaresupuponajivosuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://czus-lukasa.sk/userfiles/file/riluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138305182306---vakugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48219059624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f5aa543dc---68995998974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/gawusugidebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/15189534490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/jazivudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a06fd7beae84117b62dbe260d17bc1dd/sopubefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bf4c20b13---sipasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertribo.sk/files/10847264332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ermolino.mebel18.com/uploads/files/lofoxonawegaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fajilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/32480978588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/46226142485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobanowscy.pl/userfiles/file/71933438936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/39357006634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a87ffce4cf95c050417add001a87c11/gurodaketixowiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490fe0c282a0393435e859a8e4b62dae/26033361342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+power+tamil+movie+2021PDF 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_off0000fe83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001169a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169A 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 6c43898809de96d1d2beb297d241b2976d6c602bf8b1931e2934f87ff13a8e2a
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 19576 bytes
SHA-256: d94e871c4674f7bab5b0c2c39fe743f246f6e465ba0c51608603968e683e3030