Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc41cf47493f406a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

192.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 22:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 62acd8b801731ac718f3c8d4f3833c45 SHA-1: 9b762fd8aa2a2caf7f39925735fcd1133ec797d6 SHA-256: bc41cf47493f406ab307231f23f60e1e2e093c90ed892f6a013ead1f76b08aa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains hosted on potentially compromised or disposable infrastructure. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9863

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/pinaronik.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87967875108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd26aa2b4b---nimeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722447b8762---bukovolomawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/dapanenopaxaberiwezamenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947167d1a01---xumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfec8725fb778bd8c573844a76b7f213/73798186250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/89429941960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/wezineti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1td5rsrf37fv7ml5t3un17oub2/47543963484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englishplanet.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojaxarojowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/nufuwogobozupevuvemipabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b445b21ef59---zigiwigobekaresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/45003363412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/bajubezujetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/dasixavakowug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/kobowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208e18668ad9a212476022fba74e5c75/25389151676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehql14v8fdgqd8359jqge85ofn/14577171658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1f7c3aed4---tefitinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9d6442d29---jagogutisajeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdf9913f27---18087863658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3808d3b076df8cc272c49f2a70945f9/bivegirone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/tinoderijakukudosuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cc533bbe1---33109739396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1b42232be78083dece17fc91d7e1d0/rovexedirofozolubunotuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=bilateral+cryptorchidism+in+catsPDF 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_off00029598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29598 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7cf6dc2966b45f2dd8bf7781c20862e33ccbc61d744afc399d6df24c7100d0
font_01_sfnt_off0002aec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2AEC9 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 013f2dec76489de04cbccee6c57d1f5b7663fa325449443e22c0917f867af3af
font_02_sfnt_off0002d9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2D9EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1