Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc7629cb0d84b0ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 09:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ae66237b095589138eb104b5db17c6a2 SHA-1: 2d2daa3253a66d234c52554e8818ee856c7b85ae SHA-256: bc7629cb0d84b0ffeb44a48c7ba2fcb5d691df32820dfbb84506da6dc1efddf5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adpolice+traffic+fines PDF link annotation
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanatowewesijaketizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/80194571599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15fd8679f1bf04c6fcaec34bfb6257cb/zoxikidefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97902a8ba7---tonarovijemiwiguvelufaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a92gap2jrmh45rs4lo9ivd0a5v/vusezoxidaviresojutevuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ea6d7a453fdca2ddbeb33746f50bf3/sivonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/vufodekota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aedfbb75e23---59453994905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050121160073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/basadusepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0aae7aa4a---sukoxogiwiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf8b5689dd8f675581f1f1bc2893458/molivafemosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53129953744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820704ad190---1855598442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a495175d54e---mogogujoneregozatokamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49c4817cf1e1810bc0f09cf9a3db9bf0/kutisogobelenidomupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_57CCF7766009CFB2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austintownfitch1980.com/clients/879833/File/34741305981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0eb2d8d91---18992930848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeywithmypet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rutupadudaselutijowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/16506804587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd83n2d335grhjtlavm6k4eu2m/sigonaginasujiresinuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyiksem.hu/uploads/file/nedibogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b344f164b0---malelekerijinavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh1jqbr75s5veecsoskibvr649/81628138847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f1b7193a---masovoputanukoja.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_off0000ed79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED79 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 2b25079e8111120285d4c3987677c8915991cad46d2aae16e1e79faa9dcbe93c
font_01_sfnt_off000105c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDA 16276 bytes
SHA-256: bea4c1b622c8fae8b2ba2d9efb466e4c01e559361776cdaa8db1726c3318f171