Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc62dd3e7e5fb147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ad8260a43105c62225c827909216c2bc SHA-1: 7b067f83035283209aa359e1533f8ce5b298766d SHA-256: bc62dd3e7e5fb14729fc8288b9d0bc4bee5e0769f083299fcc8dd3efc9184fce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further malware or engage in phishing. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9l47fn2oocji01ngmg2bla822/8592138109.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/49467880192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa08f27d42e---zateludagojewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03178fa391586e1cebd6f71c06f7906/mugigasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/btputpsgokltmjsf6ig6gqg8t6/53500557825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/xewenetudikelozopoterep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1504524e6a---tabunusefesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/kewavinejepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5573c6ec0a---pimidafukodubadimefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/widepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ljoaq6lknoukbf70sqmn60ph4/lanurogumemuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f972b1cc3639b955bb1fd5fad49a751/18547159028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/jufipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/32199141628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836095bfc63---74910874523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/41922355681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_7B44BC02CB717EB5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0873eac78103c6aece96e9ed2f2c682/kiwaxifelepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvhdfvn22prrlh3cqbjinu6bea/lobebalegidupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rj15bjrm7tu2br5smnbv37jhgu/gisekik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873cee55374---31317839995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/78797329349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace781f0a12---73497325307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+motor+learning+speechPDF 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_off0000fc1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC1E 17548 bytes
SHA-256: cdd1f9bd9e49d3990700b71a13e0b634d71162bcf3aa434d9722f0e23a748eaa
font_01_sfnt_off00012a5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14274 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 37c27c36f42cc218626962c17110de7230d9fd518850792140d246b905e2cfaf