Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc97e238d2841627…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-29 07:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8cd8b05e90b21da764853ec15ba36fa6 SHA-1: 902a16c27519004458dd1559ba6790236a8d6659 SHA-256: bc97e238d2841627b89c7ce23bf09597bd398623988fc09c9e4d1e5a6708a71d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an intent to phish for information or distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=csgo+bind+jump+to+scroll+and+space PDF link annotation
    • http://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/65086332414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/25971308297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/bafevozedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43c93bf158---16280596584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a243678a1fd---52392792527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/983ef7db538d6a87ff17acd6e5d6fa59/ditexalepulemafumagavenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/47239853355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sillajen.com/fckeditor/_upload/file/lejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dilisirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/wusejojuvafepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99823e093e---76179027858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/lekojewepatibija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/755b6371896a374151b652fb0e831576/mugokugemibuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/48930475148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/022533b2fd077c75d6a7e6b5c14304e3/betivagawogaserasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530e44613b7aa2dca6964d880f75687b/81502936151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d2e65afda---sepujapepevopexesurapuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/34328448267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonivagopuvazixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/xugupaxonoriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49511091330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eko8r4qdka9r3r7bd960qmn5o9/butifozinununuvewabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/nukolimulinixixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/10763728161.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_off0000f246.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF246 11260 bytes
SHA-256: b8bbe3b79ea99531182392b643e34471e2ed15e833e2a58b9523be6989ff7cf7
font_01_sfnt_off00010c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12446 18704 bytes
SHA-256: be9d1f943820889c4a951e461dcfec9faff8cbba6c4cf5a7436a2d84a75d7522