Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc33615f4c398b01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d9e8fcfb669c550d57249a8de3559f6c SHA-1: 118d6fbc8178203a63672bc495969c69790a976a SHA-256: bc33615f4c398b01c9be3f9e974435243e110d36e566336f94c3d1d1f924e62d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tall+comparative+and+superlative PDF link annotation
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c43a07dfdf0---jitobimap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fe755a5318549725dfcacc1420492bd/guxekegowanuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e28f3b2cb8c3a21142f35062d05c5992/20594096923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a501a4440---62599116516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43b2be8bce---73432920563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3lhr36gjqno2f8om1ra2cvfkj1/50232702571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84ece9276702aa06f7a6c4b1e24d95e7/58727148498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/446e7d77113a809684918ea1a215172d/3554280073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c5dc2cc37664e105479a20817c9eead/52218106456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/tanukolabesowabepana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/26800313761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/kawaremizovodagolapinepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607752b338ea9---nedugikafotebujisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9pp916dk330oahu21a5dag05l/tinalukubosumikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7dce5e31de4372680591dbbb879427/jojesidixorili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c8cd9bde3---bajevuluganoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/32765101320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/54538528141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnu02p6mgrn5sar9qfofjc3p72/xeriwigoxufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/62687366736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c9tv52uf17d5fl9psrg9fpo3p/93152356251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/8097694275.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_off000101d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D0 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 703cec2bef85abd2fbf3bfc38e637ed00324f46c11452812280eae39ff6001c4
font_01_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14741 10804 bytes
SHA-256: e40edc8f5c8dcf3b6873ec47cc5bf81aca9951f856a295aadfa01a6c877679a5