Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bca793e8baafc1c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b69996e6d7ba740ed7d7392caacb8bd4 SHA-1: 74d6aaac2f0f9ac483a39e56961748db639a52be SHA-256: bca793e8baafc1c74712d953b4ed25f54b9ab048e0432c72049d4313bf380a95
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, some of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of link farms on disposable hosting. These elements suggest the PDF is designed to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37891da5295922711f6fd6bce8287d20/sinanagidexifexuzalav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/xopufefugedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/50674560875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2af25a2d334a05b14b3d943b043df8c4/puzerugokijilodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/funijulufuxivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/sageposofuxixeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eccd3e6c3e7---50073183384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074353a4174f---mamoguposigebare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/rabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plovdivweek.com/app/templates/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevizefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/708377246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c97bfb18d9---xofiforotozefoneno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuvivuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jod183220rkp1jh3civ7g0tafu/zabibanawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108100058053414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf1c8b33b23b3debc05cc239a141c943/73403189464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/34875468466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210727_E3F8A97D296C52A1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8399d6959c---43234667387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/varew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blv.by/upload/editor/files/95888388679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comtraining.cl/userfiles/files/dasezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/nifedilusazokaviwodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=fertilizer+application+rate+calculation+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB424 15304 bytes
SHA-256: 5db2596fb8de73f09d47461cf765be9def4b73fe749542338e0e1914586cd2ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000da7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7F 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 3dd3ebbcf4aa0ff2d9aafc4f68e98f03e33a5d547c9b42b23195651acc10e811
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1