Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc360b523fcd32b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:12:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 75eed0165d97e6e23be5b57b3f9725b6 SHA-1: b0f857ffe235c15a8a6d0d46bfc57ce830a48d29 SHA-256: bc360b523fcd32b67ae7255caa063a16ef28e38bb71588f070eda7505e004662
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file 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 disposable hosting sites, some of which are 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 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/vewage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/verisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/44276842712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131471fa1da1---47462231797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-wonders.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/6562189202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613364a68dfec---gagawubupisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden-expert.com/userfiles/file/43301401381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/53512199653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisefarm.franchiseharbor.com/files/files/86094007443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/surugararisivajen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/boragoderema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bela.geekers.tw/upload/file_folder/file/tavosowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/pivekilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mariabeckmann.com/fotos/uploads/files/71523870302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.com/editor_files/file/83408721364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/808710542621630515938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317f925b9cf---mevizarosidelape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/95433595936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/67555612510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/92160686345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/71734016954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/64466250902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eb0047678---ropasepadafusefexakozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jejozobezeposabufose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=lovelink+chapters+of+love+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000e11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF936 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 10db0ac8732a14009920bd8085d8ca4f8eebc65f85feb7918177e1dd7ebafcd1
font_02_sfnt_off00011293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11293 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 5ad6c7bf0293b77dc932d9e78d80221021565c4e1300256227cec3bbc143a8c9