Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcb4222c279c3fce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-14 04:06:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6b2919df0bacdc9206ca1fabbda051e0 SHA-1: a8b0f1915e26468a6a42a0709ae522f0a23e209d SHA-256: bcb4222c279c3fcefa89e5ee7658b50589903e338ae55962c29ef6b8e2f55184
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and a lure for a password-protected archive. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. These findings suggest the document is designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected payload, likely a second-stage malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/52607702805.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f20fd10b2---95794398187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfb88cfda6---98039459829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/rafazoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/rusejigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15a1b5043d---kamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2dc47d7230---12829866201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161077770c2efe---83477703386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa6110175f---95918858629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/14521903551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f54a5db1269031db7307c0c8d75b6c/68228268061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/megebizasabexatuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0014e0quag1eiopscqljlpkr07/guvufepiwuwopoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/bolaxonadonikaxibano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098352254b1a---82041201045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850a1255b05---47227947930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1oru1dkttepfkvuegnvhgn3tq/28222365049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050900493478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/26120284111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/gaxawebasavelizulowejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/wudoxegafuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210802_811AC5CB3601CDFE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/nubuperoganodawokekek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+blood+vengeance+full+movie+download+in+hindi+dubbedPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CB 3152 bytes
SHA-256: 9660abde623cc5da6a466eab8f361587d7985672b7e5a871b6caad225b7be663
font_01_sfnt_off000102b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B4 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 8da938c6435fac8e3ff59e12924628df7dd201b9f85f41193b5931555466620c
font_02_sfnt_off00013225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13225 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A3C 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3eb72b3fe778a9c2412d7e7fddf16126380e00eaa035ff6f30105516ba6aac