Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc7de94be7dfdc65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 68f4b00ac4d4f6853453d4fb5aa4d180 SHA-1: 85ae753c665181cd3f85d34a56727aa8545ae8c6 SHA-256: bc7de94be7dfdc658f2c64a0ba4f5a627596522e68d71a805b3016202045ab95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised websites or use disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zugiliniwuzanigabuva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/95438912644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f9878408aae297762847104ebce26ef/womed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/90972921459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/1614358553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/56768620166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b51415d4026---muzekozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/35348453232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9aaf839f3---21997818097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4bf0d8d0---16536573799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072019f62a37---60160065036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovhuibr23nogcgk3js5s9gdrcr/temikivexesedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94360d94101efbfd23d416f4a9f1823e/87705708132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9be3be66f---retisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/nirewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/93172344466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/77141622251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/82987373780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41045072352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/gabewomeguvodofeduxivazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9j5ddhplr9f638iu4pug80v3s/jodiweregadunarukazugaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plantbiochem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4180843759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/4919065790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/robugixoxivatexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4aed4a876---7239029581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b11cfc1dcb7eb95db78a602f8bff616/bukibomuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cours+tension+electrique+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000f35f.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xF35F 18560 bytes
SHA-256: 33d311810e0aab2410c2c2630273c28d9291d6206e64c428a3ad02c0af9f1700
font_00_sfnt_off0000dad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD2 10728 bytes
SHA-256: a963f544141b43ba9baccc35920031e68c99ce7fb5d0f87e4920dba98e7a7078
font_02_sfnt_off000110c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C2 18952 bytes
SHA-256: 1bc8ac7cc2c9d3d0aea5e87d09175ab2841bba4b4dd93321d8a9916d1eb8dd4f
font_03_sfnt_off0001424e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1