Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc9cd959159d319c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:16:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c82a4799e3d8a1a7fe9ab7adc4e1f7eb SHA-1: c5c8018901f4a69df54c9ba75ee00ab56f2c3a97 SHA-256: bc9cd959159d319c24ff8db933362237d3fc4b44365764755b241a931d692273
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links, combined with the PDF structure, indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or facilitate SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce344c36c1---semorixezixebixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960f39f6a1227895119adc70f3f08d0b/7530087751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24d9b6b437146b1ded9a2234de2d23f7/wekekuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba465ebae73cd47953684a33b1d4db90/71982772390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d180d679520d68b071122248cd00d4f/bitubujujalozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secondhandgraphics.com/usrfiles/file/91315296129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/19464418317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabaispa.net/userfiles/file/13198016218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/rupudese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/8004235366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f19ecb5d---96225341776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watdoenwevandaag.nl/upload/gogekipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faprosid.com/file/84771662920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946c7de9a92---18216579241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/buzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1162378362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202108232355046217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/678763044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/52437798990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612627745b785---30670145527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d4ca9e9b294ba9e290ef99bee9e708/67899128827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/juvafebusagewuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landonintergroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mobomomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.domplit2006.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1771368844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/85491465647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e86e2d745c---duliwijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tbutt3i5nkvightqt0263i6g6/rululifujadevegemipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=graphing+boyle%27s+law+worksheetPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3C 18384 bytes
SHA-256: f009b7c25804fb05369fefda04dee38b76485c4d746558c802b43cd37af4c5e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCDA 11036 bytes
SHA-256: 55e9a480f2d490d2e7d1cc28c7d129a3ac203cb59d3a4281d97a0effd176b17a
font_02_sfnt_off00011669.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11669 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1