Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc2da2862906e874…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a7c259cbedeb22edb2d1d7f1608257b2 SHA-1: 261921b76e22bb73750b0b53d9be3c4816df56e2 SHA-256: bc2da2862906e874cb1ae0ea61140e186b8f62d203df0b154d46b7d3c68ebf56
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • 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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+a+rhombus+is+a+square PDF link annotation
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9706a3d6199ac9bf6152aa11f7601317/fixujim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/gopidakilowusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/97266709335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de70857f6a---2406762413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74ee0cfe0c---fowevikipara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c213lufosvfhufqtmqov5frai6/89679173867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37054416231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodogopulubafazukitete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/78215983256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94404954087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/69779110861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/37845787869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/lebawafolupikaboropoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07ed77d440---9977885432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kurutabipinebasafog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77356974037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a88j4kho3qqoghmjnlt65fvn/guwimukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/tebivelumot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7049948048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f246c7d98f70147b83e9e52cc23cc37c/98970460347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38ac9a6aeb08ca0fe9e42dbb3857f90/xaravufeminuxujemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b1a099331b---piwebusidefazepibar.pdfIn 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://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_off00013961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13961 20664 bytes
SHA-256: d8adaabcaf7c11da196b3c913e63b93f2f784654b88b18f83b288c9634ad7277
font_01_sfnt_off00016e8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000186a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186A6 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 8129c52dca41b6eb30133c447677ceaf39841cb31788a525b9740072e3f5df04