Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc5d4762b7a5cb6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:21:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b0165acb718b5a833c673f97dc28adfa SHA-1: b826728323364b19257564cb3590ed9d4c3ac309 SHA-256: bc5d4762b7a5cb6ca97034b7d7c89cbf5bab4a20bd5e8778961e8304bb12f026
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs indicate it's likely part of a phishing campaign or a malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/56786772352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmf4tmsfr3hcg7k227fas6uo8q/pifazekopagixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fdf0e78c3b1d4d1d2af34ea8a47b717/lavuzosedififebujagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/86926023753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc639fdf084---40611991740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9d9406336ebc5c05802cf063f9e29c7/27597723299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/porugukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aee7425ad28---fevavunasigemuxotopeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/venupomamanukipakuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/wifumajomadusogimete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/4580305051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/18823173299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrejaja.com/Upload/file/sarokatunuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/26195674309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0p4he7kbu5276ssm4hkp1vj4k6/vuvaxarufagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/26942671798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/57662100475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/24412138848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c8d1739401---nasonefif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=linux+commands+reference+pdfPDF 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_off0000d428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD428 17984 bytes
SHA-256: adb176647c0edb47a2cc4da658b83febc538afa639c32b64156509bab9e9aca3
font_01_sfnt_off00010308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10308 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 92bff889ae475127cec8ebf994dc3730a5a0ebb1dd29238425138753442a7afd
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1