Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc3a69f019093ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 14:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8e79c80dde79279b03f626b7de747c94 SHA-1: a26561419c12dc1106fdeefd7862b64cc36b0033 SHA-256: bc3a69f019093ef80babfd4fde11fa8b9383c29a5d1f37ec9e5b11623ab3de25
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing attempt. It impersonates Microsoft and uses a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The PDF contains embedded URLs that point to these compromised sites, likely serving as a lure for credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+safelink+phone.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d6ce15936---dotabobamotiludukimusevor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca07e96c5d71d1ece608e0e5681fa01f/sutatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b229d619d4---wezanovixikudowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ce6cb45417af1cfa90bd4d68ce6e4c/legigawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210803_1505C41FA2ADDBEE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/33389513056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b226bdbd1---24564892859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f04401e1dae---69311605653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/41272282129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cb8a1327e---28927546376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eb2ea21c0---24338717077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/953b65ff4f4d718fd97450a57f6c0460/gufavowarudolebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/bukupamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://music-group-store.com/upload/files/xavumefokiweboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+safelink+phonePDF 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_off0000daab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAAB 16632 bytes
SHA-256: 1824bd9e9a7fc08ce3f72fff1832f157435c8627e7182a1b2fa0d6bdc520e329
font_01_sfnt_off000105f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F3 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 91a4f37546455129606f795af0e326a065fa2b12504b5e8032c15f9d53f4f2a4
font_02_sfnt_off00011e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1