Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bca911f2b7b9af0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:13:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 09ca9e0ec87d5489af2ad16c15a5f538 SHA-1: dc4a598569efa4272f74dcfc8585d7dbf9272448 SHA-256: bca911f2b7b9af0f1f68f2f65ffacdff0f503ce061cf3b906269858b342ad3a2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of link farming, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing-related websites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates these redirects or further malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/11896550576.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210816_6D9DBFAFF839709B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/75897081768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/27094680370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cde0bcf01---tuzexelupub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa1fcfbb80e---xomatinuniselixowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e90401c280951658aa269e321dd1dbd2/18289480543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4a1ohhho05np4483jkpd65a46/gijirejukevokaziregujagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136959b8d8ff---sokiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960ff75ce3d76869d3788e2264859239/sotujibakirabunalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/112440493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18412511747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839834b2513---59335555483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/87534207556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/olgdqhegoj9v1hn9lmngnmh6re/gazijovoxasajapudubazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidoreruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/vuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/kepazesagilojawiwudijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/55602565811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89cu02mfg0jdr8sdj9li3pnnkv/66363812011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodomus.com.br/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejinipemakelarujafusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/73141585628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=oldsmobile+intrigue+2002+manualPDF 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_off0000f1e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E3 18336 bytes
SHA-256: 6195da288563915533c277d1581954600766cdb7c8ad7d03e349dd5fe73d1d39
font_01_sfnt_off000121a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000139c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C0 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 353b0abc1223f6de7a35864f5769565ff17a011571f5646dad198c9dc140ab5c