Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcadffa6c225ec54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9f3b2294a07dd7d4999f6180e1d2f1cb SHA-1: 525d9ac29da618013c68785193ec7c61d096bbcf SHA-256: bcadffa6c225ec54192e40160ac95e999002fe003bc1992832009165fa528e85
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The document's content suggests an advance-fee scam, likely related to parcel delivery, and includes urgency lures. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vampire+diaries+book+1+pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9332eb8eea1375c3e46b9356cac0895c/bosafum.pdf
    • https://jin-hung.com/userfiles/file/77467452705.pdf
    • http://www.rarlaw.net/siteuploads/editorimg/file/15625453514.pdf
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/lapave.pdf
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/movavexuruvedu.pdf
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/tusadebab.pdf
    • http://campingwithconvenience.com/files/files/jezeturuvebedirefutun.pdf
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/45539748556.pdf
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88240935586.pdf
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/85738807626.pdf
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149e019acd85---48567787127.pdf
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/nujevekaxep.pdf
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/91660187041.pdf
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/lalezuvozukamanot.pdf
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/dofaruxekuranugutibusej.pdf
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/sagubabiwumekotazo.pdf
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/bumedesagejak.pdf
    • http://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/32644777792.pdf
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///13275897089.pdf
    • https://plewmal-d.com/Uploads/files/99993268872.pdf
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/39141411750.pdf
    • http://stefanourso.com/public/userfiles/file/30002280347.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cebb933df6---29679479873.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf79.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF79 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e78b.bin
026205b70d5d9c805f6617694b78ed39ab78fbc03e49321b81fae5fbb16eea39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78B 19088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001199a.bin
b9f8ee105451b43381260c5b1ab3ea0005a24dda2bfbbe039c09a6dea263f263
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199A 10664 bytes