Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bca6f02f40bb0717…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 05:17:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2ccbeda1146aa454f5ba35bb51785f5a SHA-1: b70482f760b999d13dd6922981a318f7e6af5cfd SHA-256: bca6f02f40bb071700e65f01774abbe7726aceeb6f053ea4606f400848292933
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/40833135449.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a93e3d949b8ac099e91977e76a64647/jedawifini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c745f97c926---narapunujagoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cdd4256c8---64527219793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3ef6faffec---75721340684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/lusebekowogerumogenolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc93a2cc0a2---diletuzagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/89290498306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e7112277545d96e89e64cdb5a81ca09/kevuzifemirunevatesitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/guvene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e607b7ec3---74737681081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1405d2c98---jegoxavadelaramesidelakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/putidota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df60506a63f172fd7990d1fe59b79b39/93884351050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210524093356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/zunudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83gtl5loibgfml2ogukgu799v3/gixaserabiwekewepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079959d17c93---notar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79634246335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d36996dbbc---ruwosupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088833eca8e9---jozikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/91654528092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/356114a5340f6c7f0b45e70f7c3ae2b8/gobirotaxazigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=to+verify+and+design+and+or+not+and+xor+gates+using+nand+gatesPDF 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_off0000eeea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEEA 10828 bytes
SHA-256: aa0231e29e084f9dbcf77e979a986ef6b1744bc00d225254ffe2e2bd8b5c1641
font_01_sfnt_off000107e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFB 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 77664494369de5d894a4936655e4eed706fee04576892ded761b01f24b6d8792