Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc3c1d74a76d1eee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5153554605243b0e64841c48fba12d7f SHA-1: df0142a6b6e3b2f61c0a7a0d38960f65615bd384 SHA-256: bc3c1d74a76d1eeee3f10388af64c5390de2966209e7ffb79909ae541d8071e9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. The heuristic 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' indicates the document instructs the user to copy and paste content into a command-line context, a common tactic for executing malicious commands. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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 http://cdkkck.com/uploadfile/file/20210524161314.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/fugonosovalevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/dopabilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f42263fe8830fcbc1b73ee93ae8fe7c/92156127219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/56829147191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c3099a2e83aa3ace40102678fdb5fff/35973119689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f190dba7f---vimafipasuvuvutidanenule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2kde5q0amcrvum90djnnggi15/dajufoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a08984499---68756267347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8749c06e54---98737002048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///89960337729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2945cdd10---pajumedetagovuwunopugedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/palevalukipibesipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+service+pack+2+iso+32+bit+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF3 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 0948bce3bfbcb4e86fefbcd49c51cdb6da94531067c087d21943c14e4c7eaca7
font_01_sfnt_off000119b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C4 23156 bytes
SHA-256: 60a9b443cf6e4cccdd08421f9614b0294b90f8de65001ee5c744ccf1fded5f64
font_03_sfnt_off00017307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17307 25436 bytes
SHA-256: 49ff3581fbdaa15651e2e19e54d9e76dbb00b858760d9f86e63d936e77fa4586