Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc6df0bac1d1562f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 11:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: dc2108391efb66fc34b598ccdfeb8d60 SHA-1: e963b2383f8ac887b104d1f24d5eb57e821c73ea SHA-256: bc6df0bac1d1562f44fb68b442bbe323ab66dbb3fff80791ab1877ec276e7c23
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful sites.

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=template+uniforme+futebol+vetor+download+gr%C3%A1tis PDF link annotation
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/23095403663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8657368c213b73e2c0ea3904db31b4a3/39422561700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a404799814---88429222853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/koxifemexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694065451b00004756b79bed4964e103/21039213450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cthlhj4l5mahlo4i49i9ualjqh/tuwopijapopofukosizotipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovechardonnayhills.com/userimages/92150100019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5f0e144e---95681237231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff134e2c65---melowirazowawupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/5191752369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirdining.com/uploads/files/suxonibidanitavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd2a46b9c5---1637337553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/21248929800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/030d5ee8350ee2bb9a1806521e73e4e3/vovabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/76535659006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6bb5dceeb---21799513289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wami.cc/data/files/44865214380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/jorekezapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etgikfpmnepvm926r9stola8dq/8204117983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62033826149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f41bc4776---nuvijomamefidimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotalongbien.org/data/dulieu/files/98681103432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/63425712365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1255a52d1d---kagixirusetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8a4a751cc53055906a8c1e49658099/ragujezokapaxavidudu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000112ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABF 19596 bytes
SHA-256: c2486c593cb53e2a67d95b3eecb61f55f315ed80f2f5312d65d0e33ffa6cc037
font_02_sfnt_off00015b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B35 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_03_sfnt_off000170b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170B2 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 94b876dae96f445a8ebdc9a9a28e2f0087ce08c32a90e789cf7c652dcc7afbfe