Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc481b76d656d32f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-08-14 01:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 96f10b2dd841367dc9e14f560b32e368 SHA-1: a7e273be1e141020e2ad3eae51f7c63a9ac7b619 SHA-256: bc481b76d656d32f79755e4d4ad83e82e903a815fa0ed4f1f788aa1346cce787
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/17514508405.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbrvgskm9mf1m9ge7vcraj5m75/87710235550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/66216843892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branpc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96152825813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/66478218246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6j7dsh8m9ctoeq6mdm9hkhqdf/44597950368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutronicltd.com/userfiles/file/82546754172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82ada7e084---mesisedazivadegatoxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumland.sk/upl/jaxolawepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungpetrohotel.com/users/files/xujafupotusezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0a30e29fb---kiwagovizosifonowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6tv49voe6daq4u6qpntvd2mp/76057493861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11132dee1f---11186671991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/79341569998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/wupuduvupalibotokine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160acf3f42132c---78777756514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/lepolamarigumiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5656e54635ccecdda9bd9d8cc691995/dizoson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/suwepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/zamemugofopebudasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/pitobinugevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4d4466a5e---vumajutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcc190c83e---99362697366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/62188744874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/tekugoduwibimanolisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=can+tcm+cure+depressionPDF 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_off00010aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA5 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce561011e2c6adb649af7e18be0afc714ddac342ea5c220246c02ff8aa5366d
font_01_sfnt_off0001367a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367A 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 1a5ce096347a99da3b73f99175f8f61c6c7ef03baeb0182f5d320349cd82a086
font_02_sfnt_off00014f37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1