Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcabcc8d13c729b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 13:49:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7d930ebd0444b156f8aee87e94294354 SHA-1: def2575dd4ce9dde3c690e58ef3720dc7ed12a03 SHA-256: bcabcc8d13c729b79d3f3ece9f3d92399e15ad06dab34cb7e2c942bd1add907c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, likely phishing lures or malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the latter identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212fb4e389d9258d2372758030c6cd0b/50267336090.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74f8529004---kewujulekolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7965d363057b4662c8652146adfbb1/soxuwizutalexakaveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17f3518c928dbdd8d00496e9135d578/93993888118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/9011141518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/zedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/zedenogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd96cfdd5debccdf9c74b32aa12190ed/vopiwepoxonimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607baee5865f4---30171951417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/lolejepalekefisivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/vogatixok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1978hounds.com/clients/0/09/09313dc2b2b2138818c22350edca9cf7/File/43940796879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/xobobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/tenafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e1366b46652065e211997b1dcb8bd8/79866303329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2c698c6819---21377681796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5eec8d8298---46667180273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c593496fcb8a8571329dde5c342549/67290575713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iovgrqqh9vkj4p0lbied6g2dhj/kifapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knjizara-harfa.rs/files/zoder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/82885885732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://china-glass-mosaic.com/userfiles/files/20210713_164700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072218c664b5---xuniripilosapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b2d75b3aa---90687630745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cymagun.com/userfiles/tonusenolila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210611091424_1158074992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tapeworm+class+and+phylumPDF 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_off0000f4bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCE 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 1181e252bcb6ce75010253f4a4143cdaedc29a117ab480d199736f4b5d2ee063
font_02_sfnt_off00013c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C2A 10852 bytes
SHA-256: eefc9d512ae0f5443eb36ff1eff06cfbf22edca1ff8462a3c564c2590c7ca9a8