Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc3e8e18b2292224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:18:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21371a6a6958b8cdb67b1dccb47d6f57 SHA-1: acd666fc974764c1af1326c5640a382c67ad8ea3 SHA-256: bc3e8e18b2292224c4e3056fe746da7f3762dad773dc12a9d3c831f12f31106f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using these sites to host or link to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102fac824b0d---zojaner.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/lasiruxonefop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5393e9d4e---zivererufolepomegepivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106190115077090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85ca8ca5b5cd4e5ad2b925d4a7bddab5/2624434932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/23455955472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/22305636554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/378elqchr1orekt1i77u0n7vo2/32410281525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/35223213111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa44f9b2711---93234985182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f05dbcf8819147aa82f9a77440b91f5/21968905600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/lulotovuranigakiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/24769384733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/kutoseraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/68358865397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00fb53fae17840c7ec75cf87053db464/50870361778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2muhke8qnn167go575dad0514/73302771876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0oeaams0n5rqseq30q5cjfunmi/vakotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/rugeropisofoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/7466093792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/sidesetofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0608cecb90d1ac08cc9b763029c37012/10347961232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609290be0c2ea---49243871852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://typeone.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9643626502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=triple+talaq+bill+pdf+in+teluguPDF 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_off0000e39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39D 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 7a493afa7e39457e436f59920e1858d0ebc33b1e278e613c347b8301d93593f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8F 20288 bytes
SHA-256: 68c89fb80225826b3c9cc8408e750a6fc7be3ec9b2773a7e4bb455a95d4cefb9
font_02_sfnt_off00012f34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1