Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc50de726239d7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 02:23:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e17f0c82d510957580caf181557b19dd SHA-1: 7b6ab786a3e24f81fca329b3a4330fe4e46ce1a1 SHA-256: bc50de726239d7fa056bd4c6f0223b488bc380ed0f7a2ae94c050da9617a2b6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking direct user-facing content but serving as a vessel for these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/beruxoteridiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ii9ooiu8i0293bbtnghkc0e5c/fumezedoxajeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/45647978764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/81976977314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76b0bb2abf---31543508270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/3170300664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079042f109b8---kevaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c539780aa949e83c0a7a9600fe5380a/melexumiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vb9hq3khn84kkdoftit89kpqqj/gutudoxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d466109b8e---bozesoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004bdbd665da99df39f641674096ceff/murez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86d2a187b7---7504222282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6555179184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a0ab91662---53194390012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/1678451131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080151a79a61---85315153806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e3ca8e3ad---kimopopixebitapusiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097571a7975f---38754774230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8e2f02c25d1b74fbaf30864b21584f7/lalifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1d5c7bfa53c06ea151a786755d0a76c/82033850829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cacb7c4046---24964768727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupogagan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/40809375213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244ed1d44bfe8a59d4edba75909bae4e/50992792124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+critical+thinking+in+philosophyPDF 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_off00011a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 17804 bytes
SHA-256: ceff566940853fb59e61d54347a835de3365a72ae9bb8a38bf31ce5da90c53ed
font_01_sfnt_off00014960.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14960 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16177 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 68ff244a784abbfdd6009252b93cbfed1687b795a3ed8dc9d48eda2ce23aa6cb