Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc39a5a8f5383462…

MALICIOUS

PDF

141.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:28:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: fb1484f80e3a00a2284d5517e4ac6154 SHA-1: f41b285a840031940121a171f0ce969ac54b0b30 SHA-256: bc39a5a8f5383462e0ee680cfebdeea7c99503d6f5edd57413e91a239fe7bf32
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to various URLs, some of which are hosted on potentially compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous links and the overall detection profile suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/21461562826126aca945eb7.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097495916620---sisupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/42414998954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/rebokagibimebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/75689085800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b096087eeed---levixojedadutexuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokatanazakonovevotaredev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/666918227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/67863225516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc103db613d---nipusizavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ea6fc09336016f82a5a1403e533d3d/kezejadadavanelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84pgb75l187q61mbt8cml2uhdt/beluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9bu9ntrfn50kpiq6o8c09lqa2/subipugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/586d7d785bbcb00a58d9a7737f1127f8/xiridimonuwoliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b0c45f0064b95a39c0b2595ea1ad92/27877101801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/71256825423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/86902985563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079972bbf4ae---vabikowopupokosusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f0cb6ee1ef27dee8381e06d64eea21/57635696072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halkum.rs/files/49302653705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117befe2bfb4---besadetigore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movebuxepodizojofelurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/24487124145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/24037204772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=les+systemes+d%27exploitation+informatique+pdfPDF 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_off0001bcde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BCDE 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 7ec7b697acf4e90d99666316f22aaad123fc685d1d90cfe3eeb1151569190798
font_01_sfnt_off0001d699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D699 23512 bytes
SHA-256: 92ac26286fbfb33edb3c3555ed65dd85f73f854b9c7eac378ebb32a3e8d81fc1
font_02_sfnt_off000210d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x210D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1