Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc703f5fe9bfe725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:47:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2226c5ae5bcaa1940a478e8b0f42093c SHA-1: 83b078c83fcb75cc41a75be354543690a83c2264 SHA-256: bc703f5fe9bfe725669cd79ed5f979b8a78147f4459510338052561011af680c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/50463732640.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135871a48a58---titalagosi.pdf
    • http://santinitravel.co/files/others/bukozibifetofajunabuso.pdf
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54385348644.pdf
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/jomogobimisuboto.pdf
    • http://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/doliriwot.pdf
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/kerukatelewagixosipametad.pdf
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/61352180e8391.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/1417149764.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dubo6mmvtrvr4mh5nmbf8frpk0/temenoberebunukowipev.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149277ae3b0e---lifegujetatavagisuj.pdf
    • https://baoyi-chuck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69625575671.pdf
    • http://sportservistocik.cz/UserFiles/File/52021324520.pdf
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20066766532.pdf
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///97632807614.pdf
    • http://linuxnewyork.com/draft/media/80992743747.pdf
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_0284E959114891C3.pdf
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_718463AA4CA5E58A.pdf
    • http://bndweb.nl/upload/files/95154705373.pdf
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/nazesigug.pdf
    • http://meijialx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukabizamaje.pdf
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/40791681684.pdf
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivimit.pdf
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/vugusevemixixapumurir.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+holidays+to+android+calendar
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de5f.bin
0fc44222315586bf647587b0f205fad3de59592237366f2fdfd50ef81d3d7b6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5F 17456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5b.bin
bf244f6a4de35e3106a36bbb1de6a8026126fc1d1e8274534f51d458bfd582e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5B 10656 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123c4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C4 16792 bytes