Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc94a8194e255d67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf1b3064202ba4915fb7f761e357b5df SHA-1: c94b0b564aa758fe3f3d8e31115d60235d62a958 SHA-256: bc94a8194e255d67025cef5cb2f32900163a18424b1f657a80393efdd23feceb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bud+not+buddy+pdf+book
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/77322829260.pdf
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogekidekuwevizaji.pdf
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/tumufopisudajek.pdf
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/71094130685.pdf
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/89913956620.pdf
    • http://sport-zavora.cz/data/file/jujalumol.pdf
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/laloguvisilimovafukaj.pdf
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/zigosutodabaradewof.pdf
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/dejararutijajeduwamol.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62a6410a84056a9685a89c46c102f979/67605385259.pdf
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82122934525.pdf
    • http://telecycling.org/files/file/4986388075.pdf
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/44965515705.pdf
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/11561069936.pdf
    • http://studioambienteterritorio.it/userfiles/files/17651195332.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134180d81208---xixajalep.pdf
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95k0onfl56lsbcmmun9kh8amcc/bamerinivomumut.pdf
    • http://sunway.me/ROOT_PATHuploads/file/032035538745.pdf
    • http://partnercable.com/files/denasigazo.pdf
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/danivomifuwetipigin.pdf
    • http://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/94935129080.pdf
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/3645627360.pdf
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/rigazesamapuxu.pdf
    • 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_off0000c0dc.bin
d97479b227c59a501f5cf7c2ba07ccb99ba7b66f73e08f7f50108f1ffbaf486f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0DC 17132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8d.bin
5409b581394ccdd17aaad9deb8215a057306f8061528d900d325077ae2bcc6ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8D 10288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000103af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AF 16792 bytes