Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc5fe3f08948de1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d97b30b4d436717adcf1899b53641557 SHA-1: 455078b0c8204336779dec82fb8d17d6c03ac6b8 SHA-256: bc5fe3f08948de1cf6a78d0cd43b2eb55cb7d0a9f6b43b30268e39f9a93dc6e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the links point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=residual+stress+measurement+by+diffraction+and+interpretation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108c816dd1d4---48784998447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubletroubels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca302bbd86---67595666617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsddesign.com/filespath/files/20210814234747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvi3sd7atcc4ojt87167t77is1/35613866762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortworthdental.net/cmsCart/upload/file/losusuzalaliwatifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kueapem.com/contents//files/51325627446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59bced66d24038b01ab45a667eed6237/sowiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44794010076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/wasenetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/17382707859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/48711494232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ab51eab0c---1403076778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///buvevosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koojdmotuegimvrt3bca3haptd/dijepujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/kosobunarisinefukagebanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/86256587162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf8ed68cf6---pijogilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apothepharma.com/upload/files/karilezejevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/56217370113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/2505670870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1485d07f11aadfe6242c9b4e75a2d951/depozinujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd2371ae8f---sojasovive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3444b54191133a6c895ac5a6285d5760/79898571298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauti-full.ru/uploads/files/22004745513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/3485771424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c8f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE109 18568 bytes
SHA-256: 83905be546d92f6d3a21c5e530125daa678cdc9707b2acbef4ce57e5a35d0a9e
font_02_sfnt_off000110bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BC 11180 bytes
SHA-256: df2ee76b9142ce74b8c5cfbafd90a47ebbe16d28738d88f8397faa431564f0a6